In May of 1994, Victor Shoemaker, his wife Nettie, and his five-year-old son, J.R., went to visit family on Short Mountain in West Virginia. But when J.R. went to play in the woods with his two older cousins, only two of the three boys returned.You can see a full list of sources for this episode and photos on our Website, And Then They Were Gone. https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ROA-Times/issues/1994/rt9412/941219/12190101.htm https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/vp941211/12120209.htm https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/05/05/lost-in-a-forbidding-forest/14ed224a-ca72-46b4-8d1a-4444fb378214/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2617036/Parents-want-sons-1994-W-Va-disappearance-solved.html http://charleyproject.org/case/victor-dewight-shoemaker-jr.

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