Darrel Johnson Part 1: Where the Trail Ends
The Vanished Podcast
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4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On June 28, 2024, Darrel Johnson left his home in Phoenix, Arizona, and traveled to Conchas Lake State Park in New Mexico to join a group of over 30 people camping there for a birthday celebration. The group arrived and settled into their campsite. According to those camping with him, Darrel was last seen around 11 PM that night.
However, a fellow camper, who was not part of Darrel's group, reported seeing him after midnight. This camper recalled that the individual he believed was Darrel asked to borrow a flashlight and was then seen walking back toward his campsite with it in hand. That was the last sighting of Darrel Johnson. What happened to him after that moment remains a mystery.
In the months that followed, Darrel's family launched an intensive search, determined to find any clue that would lead them to him. Despite their relentless efforts, not a single trace of Darrel has been uncovered.
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| 0:00.0 | You hear about things and you never expect to see them in person or have to go through it. |
| 0:16.7 | There was a girl when I was younger that went missing. |
| 0:19.2 | She got into a van and then she disappeared. |
| 0:21.6 | But it's not like that. |
| 0:23.5 | He disappeared. |
| 0:25.0 | There's nothing. |
| 0:26.1 | There's no footprint. |
| 0:27.3 | There's no piece of the shirt. |
| 0:29.4 | There was nothing and there is nothing. |
| 0:31.8 | I can't even say how dumbfounded I am that this is something that I'm experiencing and my family is experiencing, |
| 0:40.1 | but it's like unsolved mysteries, but there's nothing. You don't even know if that person |
| 0:45.7 | actually saw him and gave him a flashlight. What if it was somebody else? So I can't |
| 0:51.7 | wrap my head around it when there's absolutely nothing at all. |
| 0:55.5 | On June 28, 2024, Daryl Johnson left us home in Phoenix, Arizona, and traveled to Conex |
| 1:02.4 | Lake State Park in New Mexico to join a group of over 30 people camping there for a birthday |
| 1:07.4 | celebration. The group arrived and settled into their campsite. According to those |
| 1:12.5 | camping with him, Daryl was last seen around 11 p.m. that night. However, a fellow camper who was not |
| 1:19.2 | part of the group reported seeing Daryl after midnight. The camper recalled that Daryl asked to borrow |
| 1:24.8 | a flashlight and was then seen walking back toward his |
| 1:27.8 | campsite with it in hand. This was the last known sighting of Daryl Johnson. What happened to him |
| 1:33.5 | after that moment remains a mystery. In the months that followed, Daryl's family launched an |
| 1:38.8 | intensive search, determined to find any clue that could point to what happened to him. Despite |
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