Slaycation: True Crimes, Murders, and Twisted Vacations · Kim Davis, Adam "Tex" Davis, Jerry Kolber; True Crime Podcast

A Case of the Cray-Cray at Crater Lake

·1 hr 5 min·4 clips

An eight-year-old vanished in daylight at Crater Lake and searchers found no trace at all.

1. Slaycation: True Crimes, Murders, and Twisted Vacations centers this episode on Crater Lake National Park in Southern Oregon and the disappearance of eight-year-old Samuel Bogey. 2. Hosts Adam Tex Davis, Kim, and Jerry Culber frame the case, with Kim introducing the park and Adam reacting to the search details. 3. The episode asks how an eight-year-old could vanish from a daylight father-son trip at Crater Lake and leave no trace. 4. Kim describes Crater Lake as nearly 2,000 feet deep, formed inside Mount Mazama’s crater, with cliffs, pine forests, and thin air above 6,000 feet. 5. The park’s only trail to the water is the Cleatwood Cove Trail, a mile of steep switchbacks dropping about 700 feet. 6. Samuel Bogey, also called Sam or Sammy, lived in Portland with his mother Kirsten Becker and spent time with his father Kenneth Bogey after the couple’s 2005 divorce. 7. Sam loved books, fantasy, science fiction, rocks, puzzles, and picking up light-colored pumice he called gold. 8. The hosts note that Sam had a mild form of autism, could be overwhelmed by loud noise and bright light, and sometimes ran off during hide-and-seek. 9. On October 14, 2006, Kenneth and Sam drove from the Diamond Lake Resort toward Crater Lake and stopped at Rim Village Visitor Center. 10. They then pulled over near the Cleatwood Cove area so Sam could collect stones beside a cinder slope and loose pumice. 11. Kenneth lost sight of Sam after the boy climbed higher toward the trees and stopped answering his calls. 12. Another driver helped search before park rangers were called, and by about 4:30 p.m. the first organized response was underway. 13. Searchers later included park staff, the Klamath County Sheriff's Office, trained rescue teams, helicopters, dogs, and volunteers. 14. The terrain slowed the search because loose volcanic rock, downed trees, brush, and steep slopes made visibility poor. 15. Kenneth told responders that Sam might hide when overwhelmed, so teams stopped shouting and used calmer voices. 16. Even with quieter tactics, expanding grid searches found no footprints, clothing, food wrappers, or other sign that Sam had been in the area. 17. The episode also notes that Crater Lake has a history of ghost stories, Sasquatch sightings, and UFO talk, even though officials do not describe the park as unusually dangerous. 18. The tone mixes grim true-crime narration with conversational banter, and the hosts interrupt the tension with jokes about Nevada, review reads, and sponsor breaks. 19. Listeners who like missing-person cases, national park settings, and family-centered investigations would probably want this episode. 20. Listeners who want a quick, low-stakes travel story without an unresolved disappearance may skip it.

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Banter gives way to a disappearance search that keeps widening.

The episode opens with hostile banter, then settles into a disappearance case centered on Sam. The search details do most of the work: loose volcanic rock, downed trees, deep brush, cliffs, helicopters, divers at Cleatwood Cove, and crews widening their grid as the weather turns…

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You want a vacation gone wrong, with jokes while a 2006 disappearance on a steep, cold volcanic slope refuses to stay simple.

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