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She Walked; Dogs Said Otherwise - The Tanner River Jacket Mystery

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She Walked; Dogs Said Otherwise - The Tanner River Jacket Mystery

Cold morning air held a secret: a 26-year-old woman found alive in frost wearing a man's canvas jacket "four sizes too large," and a tracking team whose dogs followed a scent that made a right-angle turn as if the woman had been carried. The jacket matched a father's description down to a taped cuff before anyone showed him a photo - so why did the dogs indicate she wasn't walking, and who gave a hypothermic 73-year-old a fleece jacket the afternoon before he was found? Which of these impossible details explains what really happened?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from Melissa Schmidt's last logged check-out at 2:15 p.m. to the search-and-rescue operation that began at dawn, mapping the scene spots, the wildlife-camera evidence, and the canine tracking behavior that rerouted the search into the Tanner drainage. How do the jacket, the dogs' pivot, and a stranded rancher fit into one unfolding question?

Person: Melissa Schmidt
Date: November 12-14, 2011
Location: Tanner drainage / Turk's Saddle / County Road Nine, Dellard County, Idaho
Status: Found alive in frost; missing for 36 hours
Person: Walter Hines

- Melissa Schmidt was 26 years old, 5 feet 4 inches tall, and weighed 122 pounds.
- Melissa logged out of the Fish and Game office at 2:15 p.m. on November 12, 2011 and the wildlife camera recorded a single frame at 2:57 p.m. showing a wolf, not Melissa.
- The overnight low temperature held at 18 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Search-and-rescue was activated at 6:00 a.m. on November 13; dogs picked up Melissa's scent immediately then made a sharp right-angle turn toward the Tanner drainage.
- Walter Hines, age 73, was found with moderate hypothermia beside the creek wearing a fleece jacket reportedly given to him the previous afternoon.

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