fabrication or controversy seems unlikely wrt to MH’s identity. were that not to be your perfectly acceptable choice, given that the allegation arose from you, i do believe it becomes incumbent upon you to provide further details and perhaps documentary evidence. – realistically it never does. ‘why, how dare you speculate? He said Rodriguez lived there with a woman he described as a girlfriend but that they’d had a falling out. I don’t know what happen along that journey and can only guess at his true intentions. His hair grew very fast. May He Rest In Peace. He could have done something useful when he checked out. It becomes simpler to go inward and away from all else. independent sources verified vance’s identity directly to the author if i’m not mistaken. I know it was a delicate dance to put this story into words but you managed to pull it off beautifully. i don’t know if a credible diagnosis of acute mental illness has ever been made, or who may have seen it, if it exists or once did. It seems obvious that most would think he was suicidal from his past events. So now he is in Nirvana, the place of rest. By the summer of 2017, 'Mostly Harmless' has made it to Virginia, where he walked more than 100 miles with a female hiker. Images of a young Rodriguez supplied by a Louisiana friend. I “felt” for 32 year so I sort of remember how good it was to connect to people and I’m able to mimic that a little when I find someone I like as a person. The story of the unidentified hiker was aired on the sheriff's office's podcast. My brother was run over by two cars and still identified by my father as his son. The tenant had left behind his wallet, credit cards, a passport, a New York State ID, and a driver’s license. Unidentified Hiker Mostly Harmless. In the first Star Trek movie from 1979, there was an alien force called V’Ger that was threatening Earth (USS Enterprise to the rescue…) 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. Rodriguez appears to have died of natural causes, according to investigators. He may not have wanted to die this way, but if he had wanted his loved ones to know or for anyone to know his identity, maybe he would have left some sign. but multiple independent sources identifying photographs as the same individual they collectively knew seems highly reliable and worthy of publication. “You know I really should give him a call” I said to myself – “I hope he’s doing alright”. Marie believes Rodriguez saw the trail as another game, the distance between shelters or hostels his daily missions. Perhaps this is why he was at odds with his family. 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. It’s always amazed me that I can hide my depression so well, even keep a steady job. People knew him first as Denim, a trail name he was given for hiking in jeans, and later as Mostly Harmless. either way, what were you convicted of or what did you plead to? Hikers, church members, and outfitters reported meeting him in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and atop Springer Mountain in Georgia. ‘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. let’s leave any outrage to the small circle who actually knew the guy. And also exercise, which depression doesn’t allow me to do. I did my best to reconstruct his journey. 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. I’ve been in pain for 20 years and I wish each day for natural quick death. I am grateful to have the information that Jason has provided, but it seems that there are still a lot of unanswered questions…. Rodriguez found a perfect hiking partner in Obsidian. So despite his final campsite being only 5 miles from I-75 and 100 yards off the main trail beside one of the only signs of civilization–a lone picnic table–he did not have the regular human interaction that found him in his earlier journeys. In Mazlow’s Hierarchy of Needs, love and belonging are the bridge between basic survival needs and self-fulfillment. “It was like he had just disappeared.”. He went for a 2 month walk – paid his rent ahead of time – and just kept going. They fist-bumped and she watched him walk off in the rain, assuming they would cross paths again. i was but a tad too young and market naive to have sunk $5 or $10k into the company whose programming language we used, a little firm by the name of Microsoft. For more information, I suggest this write up here, and an update from a journalist dedicated to MH’s case here. She liked him enough to stay with him those 100 miles and that likely saved his life for that period of time. He used a trail name because that’s what everyone else was doing. One of those “outages” may be the reason he died, alone and nearly skeletal inside his tent in the Florida swamp with notebooks full of computer code, nearly $4,000 in cash, and no identification. They all carried the same name: Vance Rodriguez. He used the names "Mostly Harmless", "Denim" and "Ben Bilemy." Beavers are known to react to the sound of running water by building dams. Notify me of followup comments via email. i hope i have not offended you nor made you feel uncomfortable, unsafe or unfairly challenged in any manner. Could not stop reading. We may never know for sure. or so it would seem. Vance finally found the peace he has searched for all of his life. I have seen patients die from impaction or ‘locked bowels.’ It is a painful way to die. I’m afraid the latter applied to MH. oh stow your outrage. He just took a different path in (and ultimately out of) life. This sentence: “and it was here, in this beautiful and deserted place, that his trail came to an end” is a hauntingly beautiful one. And awful. Upon the discovery, the body weighed a startling 83 pounds. i’m sorry for your loss. I’m not sure why everyone keeps speculating about his cause of death. He created close relationships then cut the ribbon letting them drift away. I knew Vance was very troubled. thanks for your consideration! And it was here, in this beautiful and deserted place, that his trail came to an end. You can also subscribe without commenting. most of MH’s younger self pictures seem more like his strange twin brother – the candle burning depressed goth sabbath playing future serial killer. His body, weighing 83 pounds, was found at Nobles Campground by two hikers on July 23, 2018. She trashed the entire house and left my parents to clean it up. 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 had the same thought about the stories being comparable but couldn’t remember the name…. Did something happen to an organ? This man’s plight should be shouting out for people to take heed when a friend seems troubled or is behaving in an odd manner – help them seek counseling! how deeply into the private life of this deceased individual do we want to insert ourselves, irrespective of who might take us there? You want people to stop speculating but you are doing it yourself. Do you believe he seemed happy on the trail, just looking at the pics? Numbers and computer code in small, neat print cram most of them. So my common sense is telling me Vance went into a deep state of meditation (possible while sitting or laying down) and simply could not return to awake consciousness. “Let’s say you wanted to disappear tomorrow. I felt he may have been evicted or left his home in Brooklyn after a messy break-up–maybe he was even a loner who had never had a girlfriend. May Mostly Harmless RIP. DT, to what extent can you be as objective as possible? When I followed up, thinking that was a mistake, he said “that is his exact foot measurements into shoe size.”, Frustrated, I sat down with a copy of Mostly Harmless to see if the novel held any more clues than the impenetrable notebooks. I do wonder though what your background and training are that qualifies you to diagnose this man’s condition as “mental disease(s) and/or personality disorder(s) that ended up with anorexia nervosa/body dysmorphic disorder”. In Gormley’s photos, Mostly Harmless is not smiling, as he was in many other photos. The reason why Hindus where this brass ring is to avoid death during meditation. Vance’s family tried to get him professional help. “Mostly Harmless” has been formally identified as Vance Rodriguez. A good reminder…..especially these days……to go ahead and send that “friendly message”. are you trolling? jason, if i might ask you directly, to what do you attribute the petty squabbling? They say you die twice: The first is when your body is gone from this world & the second is the last time someone ever says your name. 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. i also learned fortran in college. You are allowing the poems, the songs, video dedications and write ups about how “handsome” or how sad everyone is. Some are born with it but most “shut off” their brain after a trauma. i see him as a legitimate journalist with history and skin in the game. His reasons for dying alone of starvation in the Florida Everglades will be buried with him. All this while he is taken up with other things, forgetting himself.”. Without intervention they get septic and die. Glad to know the whole story. They needed peace. Don’t let others scare you about it. What they didn’t find were a wallet, driver’s license, credit cards, cell phone, or ID of any kind. He found in her the euphoria he needed to get up each morning and be “happy” that 100 miles. I enjoy writing because it lets me carry through thoughts completely, it must use a different part of the brain. Thanks so much, Jason. Randall…Thanks for the insight. May he be at peace now, and may those who loved him meet him again in whatever lies beyond. oh i absolutely agree with absolutely everything you say here. I think that in his own way, he found it. What about the Honda Accord with two cell phones and a debit card locked inside? He didn’t either. DT, another comment i wish i could ‘like’. He gave up everything to be lost and remain unknown, and all the “detectives” pretty much ruined it all for him. Vance wanted no parts of it as is often the case of people suffering with mental illness. When it got down to his waist, he pulled it back into a ponytail, cut it and donated it to ‘Locks of Love’s to make wigs for childhood cancer victims. Why? and no, i’m not excusing emotional abuse. If he was depressed, I know. Between semesters, Rodriguez would move back home and Randall went over to visit him once, bringing his computer along to play games. I read about his disappearance a while back, this comes to provide a closure. The last known photo of Mostly Harmless was taken on April 15, 2018, less than ten miles from the swamp where he wasted away, alone, and where his body was found more than three months later. I don’t think this was a suicide by starvation. The whole introvert lifestyle and computer fascination. I understand he was like the white deer every hiker wanted to spot or touch at least once, but let’s not do this. save one possible youtube vid, the only outrageous conduct i’ve observed first-hand is people making ill-informed or unsubstantiated allegations against or about people they don’t even know, much less those entities’ motivations. And so a group focused on digital forensics went through the accounts of every possible user who had been on Screeps up until April 2017, the date Mostly Harmless had given other hikers for when he’d begun his journey. His name Vance Rodriguez. That is just speculation…. 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. Still, my mother could not bring herself to throw it all away. I don’t care for this story leaving out Vance was really abusive to two of his girlfriends. I have been following this story for a while too, and though it feels great to finally come to a conclusion, I feel like if MH could see all these he would have hated this all. Rodriguez during his Shopper’s Choice days. Last week, as Rodriguez’s name began to circulate online, a woman who used to work with him posted to Teasley’s Facebook group. I look at it and see the opposite. that’s what really counts. Now we know, but I think we always knew that this is who he was. Is this the same gentleman whose sister worked at Dollar General. For many of us, it hits hard and fast. no bullshit, you still in custody? “There’s a reason no one reported him missing,” said a former roommate in Baton Rouge, who asked to be identified by his first name, Randall. His pain is over. you cali? I’m so sorry for your troubles. i’m genuinely interested. I hope that he found true peace with God and is at rest. Congratulations Natasha and all admins of the “Unidentified Male Hike Ben Bilemy 2018” group. Glad to know the rest of his story …thank you ! I researched suicide trying to make sense of it and starving yourself to death never came up. Rodriguez reached Southwest Florida by April 2018, the last time a witness reported seeing him on the trail, according to the sheriff’s office. All who met him described a man who was friendly, kind and funny. Rest in Peace Mostly Harmless. you a recidivist or a one n done-er? I am sure they spilled the beans, why haven’t we seen any professionalism by the police or the groups to get ahead the story and control the narrative by saying, “yes MH has been found, he has a name and we believe his name is this…but we ask you to leave the friends and family alone and give them space to griev” he was Id’d right before Christmas. In Brooklyn, Hoffman didn’t recall seeing a phone among Rodriguez’s belongings. “He was in good spirits, seemed to be enjoying his hike,” the photographer said. I see the same traits in both guys (both of whom were IT guys and loners). The groups admins, what are you all doing? Theres only a small handful of people trying to control the narrative under the guise of respect. May MH be at peace. “I think he faced some very impossible monsters internally,” she wrote, “and his self isolation only added to that.”. Sisters? Things like old photographs and and the family bible. Wired. Thank you for your respectful and beautiful summary of this fascinating case, that now has a name and a family that we should respect and leave alone with their memories. so little first-hand knowledge or factual reasoning behind it. The urge is so ingrained that they’ll pile wood atop a speaker if it sounds like a stream. This goes for all that read this. And I’m sorry but I’ll never believe he intentionally died there. It’s why depressed people missed so many planned dates. He turned inward. truly helps avoid the instant tl;dr reaction to longer posts. but this entire affair has been publicized since square one. I manage to tell people “oh my computer’s not working” or “I got sidetracked”. Did I read somewhere, that he & a friend, took a class on meditation! Of course I don’t believe I’ve ever met anyone who would be so heartless that they’d actually want the people that cared about them in their life to never know what happened to them. i gotta say his earlier pics are starting to spook me a bit. She looked me square in the eye and said ” that is because you are not depressed ” ! I’m so happy he has his name back. Much appreciation for Joe King, who met him in Florida and who recounted a moving and beautiful tribute he paid to Mostly Harmless/Vance during his visit to Nobles Camp in CCSO’s last podcast. It was refreshing to read a well-written article with proper sentence structure and punctuation. I really enjoyed this article. Some hikers give off bad vibes, she said, but Denim made her feel safe. sadly, the abused can perpetuate abuse in later years. It’s also why women stay so long in a relationship, they shut down the part of the brain and it impairs reason severely. * 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. i see no reason he should have bowed to self-interested bureaucratic dictate. About nine hundred of those are in Florida. The time was approximately… Despite his extreme weight loss, he had food with him when he died. There were two notebooks full of computer code and almost four thousand dollars in cash in a plastic baggie. I’d always go look into the game he was playing and see if it was for me even if I didn’t reach out to him at the time. The time was approximately… 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. Ibuprofen for someone who had painful knees is a no brainer, and antihistamines when in a mosquito-infested area isn’t odd either. most of us can distinguish between emotional combative lovers and intentional and wrongful abuse. As far as Jason goes, leave him and his family alone. It seems like alot of police resources were spent trying to figure out who this person was when all he needed to do was scribble his real name in one of the notebooks, have a prepaid cremation plan with a note not to contact family….. @Pam, He is dead for 2.5 yrs and no one was looking for him. They spike a temp, get very nauseated, vomit, stop eating. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know.”. To their horror investigators realize that the man has died from starvation despite having food and money, he also carries no ID or phone. I’m at Vance in early 2016 and a 10 day Vipassana Meditation retreat. and if you can make the allegation you should be willing to back it up. And joyous. I’m glad he found some peace in his life. It’s hard sometimes to separate the two and I get close. did you even know the guy? i’m quite satisfied with how life has turned out, but that $5 or $10k would literally have been worth millions in pretty short order, while i was still quite a young man. ryan i truly hope your friend is found, and found to be safe. Despite the identification, some mysteries surrounding the case have deepened. of course there can be situations where controls must remain or be put in place, but those exceptions are few, and this case is not one of them. “The people who cared about him and even the people who felt hurt by him all deserve to have that closure,” she said. “It did not surprise me to hear that he left everything behind, though I lost touch with him after we parted ways,” Tuggy wrote. Like Vance, I suffered from major depressive episodes beginning in my early teens, treated people like crap and was only interested in computing and building computers. Recently I’ve taken up the hobby of streaming video games online. We fell out of touch when I changed jobs, left the country, and stopped playing video games for a time. For whatever it’s worth… “If you told me he decided he wanted to be alone in the woods and left his phone, I wouldn’t be surprised.”. it seems you knew vance quite well. are you aware of the multiple circumstances that combined make the lack of a missing persons report understandable? If no one intervenes, they die. we coded in MS-BASIC before MS-BASIC was cool, if indeed it ever was. why? Vance appears to have belonged to a large and seemingly, at least many years ago, close knit family. Mostly Harmless met many people on his trek south, yet in the end, he remains a John Doe with no one to claim him. Most of the info about the abuse came out after Nark wrote this story. In the oppressive heat of southern Florida, when large swaths of the Florida trail are often reclaimed by swamp, no one ventured out much that way at that time of year. I used to exercise avidly. When I contacted Rockfish Gap Outfitters, they confirmed they sold one pair of boots that day, Salomons in size eleven—but that the customer had paid cash. I think he has been positively identified- just not by the police. The original article said the hikers found him sitting up, with his body twisted, and eyes open. Thank you so much! I was trapped to the end not only for the very same unstoppable curiosity that bit the writer but for the quality of the writing… That’s not unusual in the thru-hiking community. There were only the sounds of frogs, screeching of cicadas, the occasional gator splash and the singing birds. suggest you consider inserting a blank line between ea paragraph as well. Collier County officials began searching for information regarding the death of this John Doe. Mostly Harmless appears to have died of natural causes, according to investigators. Seems like his whole face changed as well as his thin frame. The landlord should have notified the authorities that his tenant seemed to be missing. I also have to agree with another commenter who said that they thought he intended to go back to his apartment after a short absence but may have changed his mind while on the trail. Mostly Harlmess’ story was covered by news outlets across the country and Facebook groups with thousands of members popped up with the purpose of combing through clues to try and identify him. Beyond that I think anyone with an ounce of common sense would know that if the authors objective was turning this into fiction he would not only of left that in, but enhanced it for the extra layer of drama it adds to the story. thank you for your time. By the time Hoffman, the landlord, got into his Brooklyn apartment, Rodriguez was likely somewhere in the Deep South. They took dozens of photos of him, many of which now circulate online. His boots were parked outside. “I regret that he passed alone out there,” Tuggy wrote to me, “but I hope he is at peace.”. Even if my daughter had to suffer abuse at his hand, her suffering was not in vain. Don’t be afraid of this procedure. I learned about Mostly Harmless in February 2019, when the Collier County sheriff’s department released Sworn Statement, its three-part podcast about the case. “I just really hope he’s who I thought he was,” Jennifer “Obsidian” Vickers told me. 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. The mysterious hiker who went by the moniker ‘Mostly Harmless’ and was observed lifeless inside of a tent in a Florida campground two many years ago has ultimately been discovered. “Uh, we just found a dead body,” one of the hikers, Nick Horton, told the 911 dispatcher. but i do know he’s not here to defend himself. he looks so friggin’ self-assured and content in those trail pics. obviously some of it can be, or can certainly become so. From what I understand, it requires years of therapy, which I can’t afford. people can genuinely love each other, yet discover that they are hopelessly toxic to one another. We know his name. When you are done with this world you have nothing to loose. He made a brave choice. I always thought that MH’s story will be how ordinary he was. Investigators have ruled out dozens of missing persons cases, many sent by amateur sleuths whose confirmation bias helps them disregard clear discrepancies, such as eye color and height. The coroner reported that Vance’s stomach was empty but his bowels were full. Friday, Feb 12 at 7:00 PM CST on @joinclubhouse . They’re more quiet about the process, much like Vance; however, I did find a Yogi offering some sage guidance on this topic: death and fear. diane t, based on the sum of your posts in this forum, i’m unsure of your objectivity, and it seems difficult to fairly assess your credibility when making the serious allegation that vance abused your daughter. I’ve read alot of dumbass heartless comments about this case but this one takes the cake. Media in Florida and New York picked up the story in 2018, but it gained the most traction on Facebook, Reddit, and Websleuths, an online forum dedicated to unsolved cases. While no one knows what Mostly Harmless did in those final months, whether he walked to Key West as he intended or simply stayed at Nobles Camp with the alligators and oppressive heat, Marie believes he died with intent. We all (coma sleep or not) impose burdens of our families and friends and society – it’s life and we all collectively take care of each other – all of which is to say that it’s kind of not awesome that your family calls your sleeping (coma sleep) – I’m likely over reading into the comment, but it read to me as a pejorative description your family uses to coat over what was/is a painful injury for you. His face is tan, his beard short again. many can become so. “People don’t often kill themselves by starving. It’s so easy to lose sight of other people when you’re in a place and suffering a condition like that – it’s sadly easy to become burdensome to family and friends (or at least feel yourself to be so). This succinct piece left me thinking of naturalist John Muir’s quote: ‘I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.’. ‘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. Disappear is exactly what Rodriguez, who would be 44, had done, likely on purpose, and few who knew him found that at all unusual. 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? just that tech-y loner thing? 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. He told them he worked in Brooklyn, which turned out to be true. by Jason Nark | Dec 24, 2020 | News + Issues | 174 comments. Mike “Water Boy” Gormley took two photos of Mostly Harmless on April 15, 2018, on the side of a road a few miles north of Nobles Camp. which you have made more than once. your story is very moving and kind of a lesson to us all. I’m guessing that is why Vince wrote the code in his book, it makes your brain stop hurting for a while. A+ writings! i hope some how you can find healing, and that the path to that healing finds it’s way to be known to you. It’s what you’ve been taught before the shut down and you know you’re supposed to follow it. “Alone” is a VERY scary place. The Collier County Sheriff's Office announced on Tuesday the identity of "Mostly Harmless" as Vance Rodriguez, a New York information technology worker with Louisiana roots. those seeking to gatekeep this information and it’s flow were not successful, an outcome we should celebrate. In early 2020, he sent me a message: “Hey, I’m not dead.” At times, my heart leapt, like the moment Obsidian told me Mostly Harmless purchased hiking boots with a credit card. But in July of 2018, two people found the man dead in … if so, how so? It’s a sad life. Most of Rodriguez’s discussions in the Screeps Slack channel centered on the game but some things were personal. I do believe he allowed himself to waste away. Thanks Jason for your obsession with finding Vance’s identity. People who spoke to him knew who they were speaking to. he looks so haunted to me in the older pics, I agree TOWIRED❣️❣️ true, properly executed genetic testing is the only irrefutable means, but there are plenty of other ways to identify a body. Caroline, If I don’t skip to the end, I will stress for days wanting to finish so I read out of order and then fill in the middle. 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. then eventually earned an MS in Information Systems from the University of Maryland School of Business. we’re also fairly certain that vance suffered emotionally, and once attempted suicide. i’ve also flown airplanes professionally, owned and operated a new car dealership, invested in commercial real estate, managed stock portfolios, a wide range of activities. Corey Tisdale was a former boss of Rodriguez’s at a Baton Rouge company called BBQguys, known then as ShoppersChoice.com. MH is the mosaic & we are the tiles. i can’t be minimizing something without first seeking details. Was there someone or something there that he was meeting up with? Let’s not be assholes Carter. 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