On June 23, 2021, a 24-year-old field geologist named Daniel Robinson drove away from a water well site outside Buckeye, Arizona, in the rain. Twenty-six days later a rancher found his Jeep in a ravine three and a half miles out — rolled, every airbag fired, still in drive, his phone and keys and wallet inside it.His clothes were scattered up the hillside above it. Jeans inside out. Socks inside out.Daniel has not been seen since. He turned 29 this January.IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING: 844-602-0660. Call or text. You do not have to give your name.I wrote about this case on my blog three and a half years ago, and then I watched the country stop typing his name. This is why I came back to it.It is also not the episode I set out to make. I read the 128-page Buckeye Police Department file, and it changed what I had to say. His family has pointed at four things for five years. One of them comes apart — in their own investigator's words, not the department's. One has never been tested by anybody. And two of them are still standing, including one I had backwards until I read the officer's own report.Nobody has explained the clothes on that hillside. Not the department, not their crash expert, not the family's investigator, not me.This is also the story of David Robinson II — a retired Army combat engineer who left the desert of Afghanistan and ended up searching the desert of Arizona for his son. Fifty organized searches and counting.

DANIEL CORNELIUS ROBINSONMissing since June 23, 2021 — Buckeye, Arizona.5'8", 165 lbs, black hair, brown eyes. Born without his lower right arm.Last seen driving a 2017 blue-grey Jeep Renegade.NamUs #MP82064 · Buckeye PD case #210623079HOW TO HELPFamily tip line: 844-602-0660 (call or text, anonymous accepted)Buckeye Police Department: 623-349-6400 · buckeyeaz.gov/crimetippleasehelpfinddaniel.comdanielrobinsonfoundation.orgSOURCESEvery quote in this episode is numbered to a page at Section29.com — the speaker, the date, the outlet it was said to, and a link, so you can read anything I quoted in full and decide for yourself whether I used it fairly. The 128-page police report is there too.A NOTEThis episode discusses a young man in apparent distress in the days before he disappeared. If you are struggling, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is available in the US, by call or text.CREDITSWritten, researched, recorded and edited by Trevor Shelby.Music by TrackTribe.Forgotten True Crime is an independent show. No network, no studio, no staff.

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