Chilling photos found on missing hikers’ camera show mysterious final moments before girls vanished in Panama jungle
EERIE photos discovered on a camera belonging to two missing hikers revealed their mysterious final moments before both girls vanished in the jungle in Panama.
Kris Kremers, 21, and Lisanne Froon, 22, went for a walk through the scenic forests around the Baru volcano in Boquete - and never returned.
The students from Amersfoort in the Netherlands had spent six months planning their dream trip to Panama, hoping to spend some time backpacking, volunteering and learning Spanish.
The pair had been hiking around the jungle for two weeks as part of a backpacking trip - and they were planning to stay for another four weeks with their host family to volunteer at a local school.
But after they waved goodbye to the local family for a mid-morning walk on April 1, 2014, they were never seen alive again.
To this day, the disappearance and tragic deaths of Kris and Lisanne remains a harrowing mystery.
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In a mind-blowing theory, Dick Steffens, a former detective in Amsterdam, claimed Kris could still be alive after she was trafficked into the sex trade by a kidnapper roaming in the jungle.
While some believe Kris and Lisanne died in an accident, the ex-cop slammed the police investigation in Panama as shoddy and said it should be redone.
Disturbing evidence also showed there were a number of failed attempts to unlock Kris' phone - sparking another theory that Kris had died and Lisanne was frantically trying to access her phone to get help.
The alarm was initially raised about the disappearance of the girls after they missed a private walking tour of Boquete on April 2.
A desperate search for the students was launched, with rescue workers combing through the jungle and nearby villages.
But by April 6, the girls were still missing.
Kris and Lisanne's families decided to fly out to Panama and bring Dutch detectives with them.
The jungle was searched for another ten days with the help of the cops from the Netherlands - but there was no sign of the girls.
The remains of both women were found soon after that.
Snoeren had called West and told her: "With all that I’m reading now in the police file, it couldn’t be anything else… there was a certain sequence and timing to it, that had to be caused by the flash floods, typical to the region and season.
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"Those flash floods made staging scenes or strategically placing items impossible."
The mystery remains unsolved to this day, and there is still little certainty around the tragic deaths of the two Dutch students.