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The Bunker's Darkest Secret: He Stole More Than Money

Imagine discovering a four-inch galvanized pipe emitting smoke from the forest floor, with no structure in sight. What deputies found forty feet from that pipe in Tamarack Hollow State Forest was eleven people living underground, some for months, and the man who put them there, Roy Coleman, standing at the hatch. How did a seemingly normal community of people end up in a bunker, and what dark secret did Coleman hide?

In this episode, we explore the elaborate deception of Roy Coleman, a man who built not just a bunker, but an entire belief system and financial structure that funded him while others lived underground. We delve into the architecture of trust Coleman constructed, piece by piece, and how he lured people like Wade Olson, a precise and reliable parts clerk, into his world.

Person: Roy Coleman
Age: 53
Location: Tamarack Hollow State Forest
Event: Discovery of an underground bunker
Number of people found: 11

- A four-inch galvanized pipe was found jutting six inches out of the forest floor.
- Deputies found eleven people living underground, some for months, forty feet from the stovepipe.
- Roy Coleman, 53, had been building his bunker and belief system for two and a half years.
- Wade Olson, 26, found a flyer for the "Tamarack Hollow Group" at a sporting goods store.
- Roy Coleman's claimed eleven years as a federal wilderness survival instructor were false; his actual employment included four years as a maintenance supervisor.

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