quite a contrast. or just untreated mental illness, finally run amok. no joke. But by the time I got home on Fri evening I couldn’t even remember what it was that I needed to finish up. I’m not sure that the name in the movie was ever spelled out (it’s been a while), but I’ve only seen it as V’Ger. I pray that his family may find peace. He stopped his torment the way he always did in the past, but this time there was no one around to save him from himself. He wanted to be unknown, thats why he never told his real name. He valued the people that were close and got excitement out of solving challenging problems. * DISCOVERY: On July 23, 2018, two male hikers decided to stop at a communal picnic table at Noble's Campsite in Big Cypress National Preserve in Ochopee, Collier County, South Florida. He sounds so very human. They can’t move their bowels. The other hikers indicated that he worked for some funds here and there at hostels and the like… so where did he get $4,000? yet he lives on to entertain us, provoke our thoughts. You did EXACTLY what you said you wouldn’t do. Long distance hiking is sufficiently mentally and physically challenging that it crowds out anything else that might be bouncing around in your mind. Thank you… sooo sorry for your loss. Our mental state is so bad….for example, it takes us days to read one article….we do feel intense physical pain, but we don’t have the energy to fight back, so we medicate and sleep it off. Maybe something he ate, or a tick bite, or other environmental factor rendered him unable to keep food down? The unsolved mystery stumped detectives and prompted thousands of internet detectives and journalists like me to scour the web for clues. Upon the discovery, the body weighed a startling 83 pounds. What follows after the “protective shut down” is the slow deterioration of the area of the front part of the brain, the loss of “happy chemicals”. damn! I have an very rare autoimmune muscle wasting disease called inflammatory myopathy (aka polymyositis). But Mostly Harmless as DNA was found and immediately compared against others, using the same technique that had brought the Golden State Killer to justice after 42 years. He’s pictured wearing his Brookes Range jacket and the hiking poles he was found with. nothing screams ‘don’t bother’ like an endless diatribe with no paragraphs or line breaks. It’s also why women stay so long in a relationship, they shut down the part of the brain and it impairs reason severely. is some of it simple petty jealousy? And that’s pretty much how humans react to unsolved mysteries like that of Mostly Harmless. I have seen your comments in the Facebook group, on websleuths and on reddit. i truly don’t get it. dna is not the only means of positive identification. I see him take shape in the soft light of a forest before dawn. It is nothing like it’s portrayal in ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. His hair grew very fast. This goes for all that read this. He didn’t either. so why the outrage? It was done deliberately by the ME or whoever takes care of these things. “It was like he had just disappeared.”. Photo of a hiker who went by trail names "Denim" and "Mostly Harmless." One day she didn’t hear me then when I wasn’t answering my ( locked) door she called the cops. I obtained the forty pages of notebooks from Collier County through the Freedom of Information Act. am i wrong? When a family member has mental illness, the entire group suffers. “I’m mostly harmless (for now),” he wrote. I’ve been up since 3am with insomnia, which happens a lot. Gormley estimated his weight to be about one hundred and fifty pounds. He told them he worked in Brooklyn, which turned out to be true. Each craft carried a gold LP that contained data for locating Earth plus information about life on Earth, etc. His trail name began as Denim, but later turned into… i see him as a legitimate journalist with history and skin in the game. back to scamming and jamming? I’m not sure why everyone keeps speculating about his cause of death. Thank you for the update and a very written part 2. Based on that and my other experiences in long distance hiking, I think the commentator who said that MH had reached the end of the trail but had nowhere else to go got it right. oh i absolutely agree with absolutely everything you say here. for all the loud and voluminous accusations i’ve yet to see a single link or example of crassness or exploitation by an individual publisher or commenter, despite repetitive requests they be provided by the accusers. For more than a year, I told myself to stop investigating Mostly Harmless and start writing, that my role is to tell a story, not solve the case. I don’t know what happen along that journey and can only guess at his true intentions. The man was a cipher. It is so very human to live, and living is so often… messy. As I age, it’s been harder because I can’t learn new things for the job at a fast pace. Thank you for your commitment and following this mystery to its conclusion. As with most friends you find a common thread – despite all of our differences, we were both video game nerds that loved getting caught up until the morning hours. All I hope is you solved that final puzzle you’d been working at for so long and are at peace in whatever happens after this life. It’s got to be exhaustive dealing with that. The woman - who has shared her story with police - … Why? Interviews with former friends like Randall and co-workers from Louisiana paint a picture of Rodriguez as an intelligent and troubled man who often struggled with personal relationships, particularly with his family. Also don’t hand me anything and let me put it down, I’ll forget you gave it to me. Despite his reluctance for social engagements, I believe he did need other people. Delilah, you’re right. No DNA needed. Most depressed people don’t exercise…because they’re depressed…. ahh, if only i could spread this wisdom far and wide … . i wonder how dead on you may be about MH. who doesn’t love a clever comeback? In those severe cases it’s not surprising to lose 30-40 lbs of muscle in a week. A spokeswoman for the department who produced a podcast about the case in 2019 had no comment. we coded in MS-BASIC before MS-BASIC was cool, if indeed it ever was. Don’t let others scare you about it. But he was cleared after his bowels cleared. From Hawaii to the mainland trustee. I donated to that cause. Harmless had hiked from New York to Florida and there was food and money in his tent, but no identification, and neither Collier County detectives nor amateur web sleuths could figure out his real name, find his family, or uncover friends. She knew him only as Denim and didn’t need to know much more. The man, who went by trail names "Denim" and "Mostly Harmless,” was an IT worker in New York with roots in Louisiana. he looks so haunted to me in the older pics, I agree TOWIRED❣️❣️ at the very least a ‘don’t f w me’ vibe. i absolutely loved designing software. Sleep eventually brings me back to slightly functional and having a place to go, like work, forces me to get up. the (ostensibly correct) response that testing is currently under way does not seem like a ‘no’ to me. There were two notebooks full of computer code and almost four thousand dollars in cash in a plastic baggie. julei! Every Friday afternoon I would think to myself that I needed to come in Saturday to finish something up. I smoke too much, drink too much and don’t exercise at all. There is never an excuse for abusing someone whether mentally, physically, or emotionally but there is also no excuse for making such ugly, nasty & juvenile comments. Would mental health counseling and medications have helped him? From my view this didn’t ever seem to bother him. obviously some of it can be, or can certainly become so. i’d place my bet that vance loved coding and computer work in general. It’s always amazed me that I can hide my depression so well, even keep a steady job. Earlier that year, while he was still a senior at Ovey Comeaux High School in Lafayette, Rodriguez won the “calculator division” at a statewide math competition with more than a thousand entrants. I believe them. I enjoy writing because it lets me carry through thoughts completely, it must use a different part of the brain. Mostly Harmless (also known as Denim and Ben Bilemy) is Vance Rodriguez, a male hiker whose body was found on July 23, 2018 in Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida.. Background. In 2018, the body of a hiker was found at the Big Cypress National Preserve. I understand he was like the white deer every hiker wanted to spot or touch at least once, but let’s not do this. He left the society behind, and went on a trail to be by himself and today, his pictures, his story is all over the internet. ... and that he had most likely died within a few days of his body being found. They spike a temp, get very nauseated, vomit, stop eating. She never pried. He may have chosen to stay there, in that tent, to die of “inanition,” a term I hadn’t heard until Warren Doyle said it. how deep into true abuse territory did either’s actions devolve? But, if I was a betting person I would put my money on his death being unintentional. Latest COVID-19 updates, Florida wastewater pond's 'imminent' overflow leads to evacuations. Hey…let’s victimize the victim, why don’t we? do you think it’s justified? Unfortunately, a few years ago I suffered a traumatic brain injury that requires me to take amphetamines to function. “I think he faced some very impossible monsters internally,” she wrote, “and his self isolation only added to that.”. I think that in his own way, he found it. He read it and found nothing revealing, besides the obvious cachexia. This post also touched me. your analysis is spot-on pam. It’s an interesting tale of not getting trapped in your 9-5, taking time for your mental health, and living in the moment doing what makes you happy. *UPDATE: The Collier County Sheriff's Office has announced that Mostly Harmless is a Louisiana man by the name of Vance Rodriguez. Mostly Harmless appears to have died of natural causes, according to investigators. or failing that it should be quietly withdrawn. Randall said Rodriguez often came to his house for Thanksgiving and Christmas. those proclaimers so clearly above the rest of us unwashed gossiping simple-minded serfs …. The women was living on a family trust fund. He was active in message boards on the game’s Slack channel, telling users he was “usually in front of a computer” or that he’d played until 4 a.m. Notebooks found in the tent with Mostly Harmless were traced to the game. (oh i hear the cries of outrage already. I have seen patients die from impaction or ‘locked bowels.’ It is a painful way to die. One scene, in which the protagonist seeks out an oracle for advice, felt apropos, as if Mostly Harmless himself were talking to everyone trying to crack his case. His fingerprints didn’t match any others in police databases, and investigators estimated his age as anywhere between thirty and fifty. I love how you told his story Jason! Parents? The final answer on his confirmed DNA ID came out in an article in Wired on Jan 12. . an unpublicized hunger strike of sorts. Do you believe he seemed happy on the trail, just looking at the pics? Sheriff's detectives searched databases using his face and fingerprints: nothing. * DISCOVERY: On July 23, 2018, two male hikers decided to stop at a communal picnic table at Noble's Campsite in Big Cypress National Preserve in Ochopee, Collier County, South Florida. “You know I really should give him a call” I said to myself – “I hope he’s doing alright”. Interestingly, I can write fluently. About 2 weeks ago there was a discussion in my Twitch chat on video games and I brought up a game called ‘Rift’ that inspired me to build my first real Gaming PC. you are openly admitting to rather serious mental health issues in your youth, for which most would agree you should be lauded. what can you spill? seems to be more of a holier-than-thou self-elevating proclamation than any kind of demonstrable reality. thank you toowired. Suddenly the hurt just stops. i don’t get a feeling that you are engaging in self pity. Read New Story. Nature seemed to work on him, though, and his quick trip to Harriman State Park turned into an epic journey that lasted more than a year. Randall couldn’t remember him smiling so much as he did in photos taken on the trail. He started hiking to avoid getting caught sleeping in the park (although he had an apartment). do you believe the forum admins might bear some responsibility to vet allegations that could arise about vance – before allowing them to be posted or to remain so? You’re anything but scared, and to leave this state it usually requires a deep will to finish your work here on earth otherwise you will stay there until your physical body runs out of fuel/energy: calories, fat, and muscle. I agree with Pam. From what Vance’s friends said, and how he died, it seems that he just decided to stop functioning, go into his own coma-sleep. Thank you for sharing Randall. I know this story has found its way here many times, so I will try to keep the background brief. A hiker known as "Mostly Harmless" whose body was found in the Florida Everglades in 2018 has been identified as a Lafayette man whose family still lives in the area. A woman Rodriguez once lived with in that Brooklyn apartment said my efforts to identify Mostly Harmless were “misguided.”. His boots were parked outside. Also to his many trail friends along the way who answered the same questions from many of us over and over. And then he would have needed to get back to being around people to be safe once the girls failed, he took the loner route, basically his brain told him that this was all too much, to go find a place away from the world and hide (which is what my brain tells me daily), his depression won. jason, if i might ask you directly, to what do you attribute the petty squabbling? Rip Vance and hope your trail was to a peaceful place. thank you for your time. They have no idea I’m hiding from other work. What they didn’t find were a wallet, driver’s license, credit cards, cell phone, or ID of any kind. NICHOLAS THOMPSON: The thousands of people following the case soon learned that Vance Rodriguez was complicated. It’s hard sometimes to separate the two and I get close. “I recognize that and acknowledge that this was done with utmost love and respect for a man that none of you knew,” wrote the woman, who asked not to be identified. i’m not in any way attempting to excuse or minimize abuse. In the movie, this particular Voyager somehow evolved to become sentient. He didn’t trick anyone into talking to him. Known by many as “Mostly Harmless”, his body was discovered in a yellow tent in Big Cypress National Preserve, about a year after people first met him in a state park just north of New York City. Mostly Harmless said that he wanted to figure out a path down to the Florida Keys. the independence. Teasley said that doesn’t take away from the work done by volunteers and as a member of the group. “Ever.”. it all made sense, and it all compiled once correct. but the online comments i’ve read on various forums don’t seem out of line – just supportive and sympathetic in my estimation. I feel and know your pain. “There’s no evidence of cancer. I may have lost my last comment but in the event that you think your friend killed himself I just wanted to tell you a co-worker of mine also took his own life. Yes it is in a case where we are not sure if its him in the tent but by now we have seen friends post about him, we have seen family members post about how troubled he was, we have seen more than enough pictures to assure us that Mostly Harmless is Vance. Read New Story. Mostly Harmless was well known to hikers on the trail, many of whom shared food or resources with him on his journey. Teasley also built a website about the case, including a detailed timeline of every recorded stop Mostly Harmless made. ‘Mostly Harmless,’ hiker found dead in Florida, identified two years later, from Lafayette ... Vance Rodriguez’s body was found in Collier Country, Florida, on July 23, 2018. The two played multi-user dungeon games and Randall said Rodriguez was most confident when he was on a keyboard. Update 1/12/2020 at 11:28a: Today, Sheriff Kevin Rambosk is pleased to announce that after more than two years, thanks to the great work of our detectives, tips from the public and the use of DNA technology, we now know the identity of the deceased hiker who went by the trail name Mostly Harmless. I really want to get this in print. Collier County officials began searching for information regarding the death of this John Doe. He is included in his grandfather’s obituary from this past summer. She laughed often when we spoke, recalling their unlikely partnership. I do agree that the Landlord should have reported him as missing. it’s not like he left kids or a wife behind. She described Rodriguez as “kind, quiet and intelligent” but believes his “quiet and reclusive” nature contributed to him going so long without being identified. A man that didn’t want to be written into the history books, but rather study them to learn how to help others in the future. He didn’t sneak into groups or talk to MH’s acquaintances under some cloak of secrecy, at least not that I’m aware of. “He never wanted to talk about his family,” he said. None of what you said surprises me. I’m still working through the article, it’ll take me a few days to read an article. Haha! i also learned fortran in college. i salute your patience in watching the entire vid. Sokushinbutsu. Stop the judgement and love yourself for what you find within and only then can you share the love with others. It barely lets me get out of bed most days unless I have somewhere I have to be. People have different stories. wishes in death can certainly be different, and to my knowledge he left no wishes behind. That makes no sense to me. The man (NSFW) looks to be between 55 and 70 years old. “It did not surprise me to hear that he left everything behind, though I lost touch with him after we parted ways,” Tuggy wrote. it should not be tolerated. Yes because no journalist has ever put out a story that the police or others didn’t want out there Nark hasn’t claimed credit, nor did he promise anyone he would wait to publish his story. In December, 2020, he was identified as Vance Rodriguez, who was originally from Louisiana but based in Brooklyn, New York and his identity was publicly released in January 2021. In the late 1980s, I too became a huge computing fan due to MS-Basic, dBase, Lotus etc. some funny shit comes up on your google search! whether he chose where to die, and if so why. In my own portrait, Mostly Harmless is a mystic who left the material world behind, a transcendentalist who shed smaller, inconsequential truths for a larger one. With deepest sympathy, Little did I know that Vance died almost 2 years ago. if so, how so? just that tech-y loner thing? Not everyone’s family, life is the same. nee, what do you propose be done about it now? The evidence from his history to his state at death is blatant. “People don’t often kill themselves by starving. He made a brave choice. I would speculate that the constipation did him in based on a situation that my dad went through ended up being in the hospital with 103 fever dehydration and bowel obstruction. They may get a fever or throw up. In Brooklyn, Hoffman didn’t recall seeing a phone among Rodriguez’s belongings. He was so open to the new experience. Also at least one of his family members has liked a couple posts. Friends are identifying him thru photos taken on the trial. i don’t feel it disrespectful to request that you conference with your daughter and as objectively as possible assess all sides and all roles in the conflicts and come to your own independent conclusions as to the merits of providing further clarity to the very serious abuse allegation against the departed vance. no one knows for sure but based on the trail pics and the recollections of those who met and interacted with him in the outdoors it seems that most of vance’s last couple of years were happy ones. There’s no “goodbye.”. Glad to know the rest of his story …thank you ! I see some of each of us in MH. He just took a different path in (and ultimately out of) life. He looked healthy, Randall thought, more muscular than he’d been when they were roommates back in Louisiana. They needed peace. I can go days at a time never having a coherent thought, I usually stay in bed and call into work with a “stomach flu” when my brain goes that far. After the beautiful experiences he had hiking the trail, he would have had to sit behind a computer screen again for hours on end to make his living. When the hikers called out and no one answered, one of them peered into the tent and saw the man sitting upright, his body twisted. The podcast was part of the department’s years-long effort to identify the hiker, but seemed initially only to deepen the mystery. I see him as the ideal of William Hazlitt’s 1821 essay “On Living to One’s Self.”, “He reads the clouds, he looks at the stars, he watches the return of the seasons, the falling leaves of autumn, the perfumed breath of spring, starts with delight at the note of the thrush in a copse near him, sits by the fire, listens to the moaning of the wind, pores upon a book, or discourses the freezing hours away, or melts down hours to minutes in pleasing thought. Friends said it was from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. no offense intended towards CN, but it’s a fairly prevalent social media ‘thing’ to display exactly the behavior one decries within the very same posting of objection. God love her ! her comments have been moderated then posted.). I really think we are owed an explanation from both Natasha Teasley and the author. thanks for your time! Actually I’m not at all appalled by his suicide attempt and that scar always fascinated me when I learned of it from the autopsy report. It is so heartbreaking that anyone should die alone, unmissed and unloved. It makes the most sense to me and this just submitted as a suggestion—maybe he found enlightenment and simply chose to stay in the presence of the divine energy that is the source of everything, in western culture we call it God. “The people who cared about him and even the people who felt hurt by him all deserve to have that closure,” she said. Is that because you want to write it up first, you want to type it? Finding Mostly Harmless On July 23, 2018, two day hikers in Big Cypress National Preserve discovered the body of a hiker whose identity would confound investigators for years to come. That was not a life. my god that is some real shit you laid down. i have no idea if vance chose death or if death found vance. i simply assert that we don’t know. He called one of his friends a few months before he started hiking, he visited his sister between the AT and Florida trail. i’m wondering about your thoughts on the matter,? “We were both in computer science and we didn’t have a lot of friends,” Randall said. On the trail, Mostly Harmless had carried a notebook full of ideas for Screeps, an online strategy game for programmers. 3. Mostly Harmless told at least one hiker he was from Baton Rouge, and Rodriguez both lived and worked there for many years. He said he was legally required to hold Rodriguez’s belongings for 30 days but kept them for about five months instead. why are people pissed off? Vance John Rodriguez was a man who was found deceased in Florida in 2018. Tisdale told me Rodriguez was “wicked smart” and worked as the company’s senior architect and developer for about three years. Thank you for spending so much time with “Mostly Harmless”. Stop speculating about a mystery illness, it’s very obvious he deliberately starved himself to death. writing computer code is one of the most satisfying jobs i’ve ever had, and i include my college coding hours in the mix as well. The saddest part for me truly is that I can no longer read books. Had a fit about anyone mentioning Vance’s name before the sheriff’s office officially released a statement; kicked people out of the group for posting pictures of Vance; then they turn around and give quotes for this article .. AND their own moderator wrote the article. He had no tattoos, no distinctive scars, no dental work at all. This everlasting story will help bring mental illness out of the closet. About nine hundred of those are in Florida. might she be available to elaborate herself? and no, i’m not excusing emotional abuse. Mysterious 'Mostly Harmless' Hiker Found Dead In Tent Identified Through 'Cutting Edge' Genetic Research After genetic research pinpointed Vance Rodriguez's DNA to a section of Louisiana, that area was targeted with ads in an effort to identify the dead man. I’ve posted queries in hundreds of Facebook groups, trying to break out of the echo chamber of unsolved mystery and hiking forums. One of those early pictures, he looked very emotionally dark‼️. It was packed with stuff. His secrecy may have been intended to hurt his family, with whom he had obviously had a falling out. His friends have commented, family have joined groups. They hiked southbound together on the Appalachian Trail in Virginia for about a hundred miles, starting at Blackburn Trail Center. Abuse can be hereditary, and if so why the cited campers matched Harmless ’ s give all parties benefit. No amount of drugs can is often the case was ultimately solved when a former girlfriend in Louisiana with! 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