>>2239969I never make assumptions, going /out/ in any capacity has risks, especially in unfamliar landscape. The best tool is knowledge and practice in survival situations, but that is never a guarantee.
As for the missing Dutch girls, that's just a case of errors adding on to errors. I've studied the case a fair bit, and I don't think it was a murderer, just a sad case of getting lost and making desperate decisions that compounded that. (Same way McCandless starved to death.)
In the case of the Dutch girls, here is what happened without any major tinfoil.
They got lost and tried to make several emergency calls over the next few days, but could never get a signal.
They tried to head for water as basic survival teaches that it's access to drinking water, and two most bodies of water usually have human habitation around them or access to habitation. The two failed to realize that they were headed deeper into the jungle in the opposite direction of Boquete.
They used articles of clothing such as the shorts to mark the way, this is why the bras were removed since they would be used as markers.
Kremers had a fatal fall, and it is likely from fractured bones found in the surviving foot of Froon that she was also injured in a fall, but managed to survive while trying to cross a monkey bridge. This led to the night time photographs. As Froon was using the photos to record the geographical markers, and set up signal parts, in an attempt to be able to mark where her friend had died. The outline of the bridge can be made out in some of the night time photos.
Without Kremers pin, the phone was not accessible. Froon would have attempted to walk out on her own, but was able to progress much further and likely succumbed to exposure on the river system or fell from one of the other connecting monkey bridges. Her last attempt to use the phone was the 11th of April.
