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William Harlan was a 50-year-old Caucasian game warden who was shot and killed on January 5, 1981, in the remote Bull Basin area of Idaho. He and fellow warden Conley Elms had gone to investigate a report of illegal trapping and encountered the isolated camp of Claude Dallas Jr., a reclusive mountain man noted for survivalist skills. The encounter escalated into a confrontation in which both wardens were shot and killed and Dallas fled the scene, prompting a nationwide manhunt that lasted more than a year.

Claude Dallas Jr. was eventually apprehended in Nevada and brought back to face charges; he was later convicted of manslaughter in the deaths of Harlan and Elms.

Did anyone in the Bull Basin area or the trapping community have information about Harlan, Elms, or that January 1981 investigation?