"Two women and a teenage girl were found shot to death and hidden in a shed on a rural Idaho property. The man they both loved—and one of them was married to—had vanished into the wilderness. Eight years later, police believe he's dead. But they've never found the body."
In June 2017, a welfare check at a home on KCID Road in Caldwell, Idaho, uncovered three decomposing bodies in a shed[citation:1]. Each victim—Cheryl Baker (56), Nadja Medley (48), and her 14-year-old daughter Payton—had suffered a single gunshot wound and had been partially covered[citation:4][citation:8]. The owner of the property, 60-year-old Gerald "Mike" Bullinger, had disappeared[citation:5].
Bullinger was living a double life: married to Baker for over a decade while simultaneously dating Medley, whose daughter called him "dad"[citation:9]. All three had moved into the same property in May 2017[citation:4][citation:9]. The last confirmed sighting of Bullinger was June 11 in Ogden, Utah[citation:5]. His car was later found abandoned in Wyoming's remote Bridger-Teton National Forest[citation:6].
The Canyon County Sheriff said in 2018 he was "99 percent" convinced Bullinger died by suicide or exposure in the wilderness[citation:1]. But Bullinger—a pilot, survivalist, and outfitter who led backcountry trips with mules—has never been found[citation:4][citation:8]. The case remains technically open. Murder warrants were requested, but Bullinger's fate is still officially unknown.
Listener discretion advised. Press play for the story of the Idaho farmhouse murders—where the prime suspect vanished into thin air.


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