The Mysterious Case of Donald Kemp, Wyoming.. Still a mystery.
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Hello everyone, in today's case we will be discussing the very baffling case of Donald Kemp who was a successful business man and gave up all his possessions to move to Jackson, Wyoming. His intentions were to write a book about President Abraham Lincoln.
Unfortunately, he never made it passed Cheyenne where he had stopped to check out some museums. His Chevy Blazer was found abandoned on an off ramp on 11/16/82. During their search they found a lot of odd things which I cover in the video.
Unfortunately he wasn't seen again until 1986 when two hunters found his remains about 3 hours from where his car had been found.
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He had a break with reality when he couldn’t find his briefcase, that’s why the vehicle had been turned over in a futile effort to find it.
That's an interesting thought. I initially wondered if he had left that behind deliberately because he was going to commit suicide and was divesting himself of stuff but nothing else really fit such deliberate action. That its loss was the trigger for a breakdown seems much more plausible.
Yes! If I had a golden buzzer I would let you hit it. Good detective work.
My exact thought! Realizing he had misplaced his briefcase may have been what tipped the scales. How sad for him and his family.
Wow! Great idea!
@@carolyns99 I thought the same thing about him possibly leaving it on purpose.
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This is so informative!!! Fantastic reporting; I enjoy this kind of content!🌻🌼🐝
Awesome channel. Would love more semi famous cases like this 👍
He was probably looking through his truck for his briefcase and became extremely frustrated that he could not find it. The frustration threw into a psychotic episode and he just made irrational decisions. The briefcase was most likely the most important thing in his life.
Yes...it WAS the most important thing in his life as it sounds like there were bank checks (probably all his long-term money or access to it), all his personal valuables. Makes sense he just tore his vehicle apart to find it...and not being of sound mind to think he should just go back to his previous locations to look (which I would do), he just lost it and decided to "live off the land off-grid" sort of thing. Go camping...forever. He probably didn't leave the valuable suitcase in his car so that nobody would steal it when he was in the museum...actually 2 hours is a small museum is a long time. After he got frustrated and permanently left his car to go "forever camping", I'm thinking he got tired of carrying so much stuff that he stashed, on purpose, the duffle bag in the hay stack, thinking he would come back for it. If he just wanted to throw it away, he would have just left it out in the open for someone to find. Or more likely, upon thinking about it, maybe he didn't want people to know he was there so he put it in the hay stack bc he knew it would be found...but much later, so that people wouldn't go out and look for him. Yeah...I don't see anything nefarious here...at all, really. I feel sorry for him, but he was a grown man and I've seen adults make changes in their lives, sometimes drastically. I would think that a NYC-life in the financial district would be extremely stressful. He did what he wanted to do at the time. It's not like he left his wife and kids or anything, and we don't know exactly h-o-w close he was to his mom.
This honestly was my thought as well. The truck being in that condition is how it would look after youve torn thru the interior trying to find something that isnt there. Frustration...anger...and/or panic over not knowing where his bag was, coupled with a mind that was near a breaking point, probably sent him over the falls of reality
As a person with stage 3 CTE symptoms I can relate. Your reality is skewed. Luckily I have good people I trust that keep me grounded. His perception is different than normal people. Rip
We were all over Wyoming in '76: Cheyenne, Sheridan, Laramie, you name it. Me parents attempted to homestead in Jackson Hole. We had a tee-pee and a snowmobile. Nowadays, Child Social Services will lock up parents travelling in a CJ5 Jeep with seven kids, two cats and a dog.
The head injury, combined with the heat, travel, and gradually coming up done mentally could all have played a part
Thank you Bryan.
Just came across this old video on my feed!! 🥰
Thank You!
How far was the house where the phone calls originated from where his truck was found?
I live in Wyoming, from Cheyenne to Casper is a couple of hundred miles...
About a 1.5 to 2 hour drive with a small mountain range in between.
about 150 miles , you would have to go west to rawlins about 50 miles then go north about 100 miles to casper , i'm a wyoming native 82 years and have never heard of this case, ......strange ?
Agreed with the psychotic break. I saw a friend on LSD once who threw his wallet his glasses and clothes away but he was in a specific area where people could keep an eye on him
Bizarre is all I can say.
Leaving the Bronco running, door open, things scattered about seems like the actions of someone not of sound mind. But then, not much later-maybe the next day-he secrets the bag of laundry away so it is protected from the elements. He must have planned to retrieve it. Then, the weather is a factor, he is not familiar with the terrain and might have walked in the wrong direction while his body temperature dropped. Don't know what occurred during the day and what at night but likely once he had his wits restored, he was lost, hungry and very cold. God bless his family.
Why didn't you leave the map up longer.? How far was the barn and the haystack would that be on the map?
Other than the fact they never found him, there is a lot of that Chris McCandless vibe in his story. Chris also had some sort of trauma that caused him to completely change. His priorities, his vision for his future, his value system, his desires for family and relationships...it all suddenly meant nothing. He seemed to be put on a quest to do a 'self peel' and sought isolation. In some ways, its a kind of self righteous attitude masquerading as a virtuous spirit as they never start a charity or learn about JESUS, seek SERVICE to others or just become nicer and more loving people, they instead go on a 'self improving' journey by walking away from everything and everyone. They become seduced by type of self hate but not in a pure form of 'selflessness'.
He was found.
My late wife suffered a TBI in 1978 while she was pregnant, drunk driver hit us, she was in a coma for 3 days.woke up didnt know she was pregnant didnt really know our son. It changed her into a different person and she had issues for the rest of her life. Wasnt the same girl I married 3 years before but I stayed with her the rest of her life,she passed in 2019. TBIs cause life long effects on people some of them are subtle some are more pronounced.
Bless you for staying with her. A lesser man would have left.
@@brokentreeusauka1891 I could have never left her she was and is the love of my life. Living on with out her is hard somedays but I see her in my kids and grandkids.
Good on you for staying with your wife. That's love
No one knows what a TBI is but you dude. Thusly no one can care, because your comment makes no sense. If you're going to commit an act of kindness for someone, don't ruin their memory by being an idiot when you leave a comment about it. No wonder she 'changed' on you, you're a freaking moron.
@@brokentreeusauka1891 you got that right what a wonderful person you stayed with her , I hope there is closure on this case sad story ,,
As a professional who worked in the field of mental health for decades, all of this seems plausible. The family and friends he left behind are the ones who suffer the longest. ❤ 🙏
You're so right but they're not mentally capable of feeling that.
yes, I agree that he was having an episode of psychosis. I know of a woman who's son was pretty normal until the night he was robbed by gunpoint and then hit upon the head with the butt of the gun. He was never the same again. He began to hear voices, became extremely agitated and paranoid and had long episodes of psychosis where he would see people outside where there were none and he kept tearing apart his room to search for the people hiding in the vents or under the bed. He also began using drugs to try to self medicate but that only made things worse. It's incredibly troubling how trauma to the head can affect a person!
So sad :( that poor woman watching her son hurt like that.
I have a family member who was very successful and who lived a completely normal and average lifestyle until he was in a pretty brutal car accident. He severely hit his head during the car crash and after he was cleared from the hospital, he was never the same. His personality changed to the point where he seemed agitated all the time, he became increasingly paranoid in thinking everyone was out to get him, and he would have bouts of depression on top of crazy mood swings. He really became a completely different person after his accident. I don’t want to go into the nitty gritty details of his marriage, job, and career but needless to say, none of it ended well. It’s so wild to think that a hard hit to the head can not only change a person but it really can alter someone’s personality.
My son was a very, very similar incident. He's wandering out there alone, homeless. If people ever see a homeless man, please remember that he has a mom somewhere who's probably very worried about him. Be kind, please 🙏.
Yes I totally agree!! My ex was in a motorcycle accident with severe head trauma and now he has no inhibitions! He gambles like crazy, every other word out of his mouth is a cuss word, he is a sex addict now, ,.he has bad OCD..ALL OF THESE WERE NEVER A PART OF HIS LIFE BEFORE ACCIDENT
@@Melsincatuation so your into sex addicts :) sup baby
I'm a truck driver from California, I drive through Wyoming pretty often (im actually in Wyoming right now). I believe it has the lowest per capita population outside of Alaska, it is very empty out here and the weather is notoriously bad, it is rated as having the second worst winter in the US. I'm about to be driving across a very empty part of it (I80 gets alot of truck drivers, im not going throigj there right now) at 3am so definiwtelt a good video to watch lol
Edit: dammit im in Casper right now 😂😂😂
yeah, I live in Montana and Wyoming has a much more difficult environment. windy, snowy, desolate
lived in casper 18 months. Another kid disappeared while I lived there from the Hat6 area I think. Wyoming is vast and empty,it would be easy to get pinned down by the weather as it constantly changes from bad to worse.
Also a trucker, thinking about moving to Cheyenne, what's the freight food chain look like out there anyway?
It was especially bad back in 82. The snowstorms that year were so insane (even by Wyoming standards), that it still gets referred to in casual conversation in Wyoming to this day. Before my time, but I grew up hearing about the snow burying 2 story houses/buildings in the middle of the larger towns like Cheyenne and Casper.
I can’t imagine being stuck outside in that, or attempting a search out there.
Lived there.. and many states.. wyoming is not worth a drive, only in Jackson.. casper is nothingsville oasis, and it only has oil jobs, walmart and hotels. cheyenne is colorado basically, after that ..the only good thing is yellowstone and jackson hole.
@@cknutj2387 wyoming wind winters are not cool ever. Totally depressing heh
As a nurse I once worked at a brain injury rehab hospital. One patient was a fella in his 30’s, TBI from a motorcycle (no helmet) wreck. He was the nicest guy. I had an opportunity to talk with his father a few times. His dad said the brain injury was the best thing to happen to him. He said prior to the TBI he was an angry, hateful and wild young man… had been his entire life, also self-medicated with various drugs. After the TBI his dad said he’s amazed: polite, courteous, loving, grateful.
The most significant thing about this is that those of us who have had brain damage from an accident, physically or emotionally we’re all going to have a different reaction.
That being said it would be a great thing if others could understand that and be sensitive to the fact.
Head injuries can bring about many different alterations of one’s personality. When I had my head injury I lost my ability to taste and smell. But more noticeable in my character, was the desire to get away from this materialistic world that we live in. I also got rid of everything I owned, except the basic necessities of life, bought a bicycle and disappeared into the landscape. This was enough to make me happy, but a more significant head injury, may make someone like Donny, disappear forever. By choice.
Did your sense of smell ever return?
@@samalford3289 Unfortunately it didn’t. Every now and then I will smell something, or slightly taste something and I think it’s great! Doesn’t last though. Maybe 5 seconds. I still have my health! 👍😊
I can't really think of any other reason for what happened here, than something had to go wrong with his brain and his thinking ability. I was born in Wyoming in 1960, and I do know one thing... the landscape can appear harmless to somebody that has no experience with it, but it can fool people real fast. It can fool even the Wyoming experienced person.
I just went out there a few days ago for a week from the east coast. I'm in good shape and when you get off the trails it does make you work.
If you happen to be directionaly challenged, it is awful. Too many rocks and patches of scrub brush all look the same.
Grew up in Wyo and people disappear, just vanish on the Red Desert, never to be found. It isn't very often this happens but it does happen. With drones today, it would be easier to find missing people, I would think. Also, the North Platt River is not very forgiving. Lots of undertow and snags that don't give up its secrets. Looks flat, but it isn't.
He was guilty and on the run.
@@patriciajrs46 Spent alot of time there....its not that difficult, even if you haven't been there long,huge open spaces and plenty of visible landmarks. Seems to me he wanted to get lost, thought he had been caught for whatever he did,and was running from his own conscience. He behaved like a fugitive
Sounds like he could have been suffering from episodes of psychosis or temporal lobe seizures caused by head trauma. I knew someone who was hit by a car and then had random attacks of psychosis for a year or more afterwards. In between them, he was apparently normal.
I was wondering about that, I’ve heard stories of people who had head injuries and they suddenly get paranoid and take off. Never to be seen again and either died from the elements or want to start life a new with no history
I agree but what about the phone calls very strange
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I don’t have any answers but one I was driving south on Hwy 287 in the middle of nowhere Colorado. At around 3am I had noticed a man walking down the road in only his underwear and it was 15 degrees outside. There was no houses or cars anywhere to be seen. My guess is people have snapping points. They just lose it and all thinking and rational thoughts go haywire
I don't find any of this strange at all, the victim was experiencing some kind of mental health problem.
Whilst the balance of his mind was disturbed, he walked off into the wilderness as a large blizzard swept the area.
He travelled about three hours on foot from his vehicle before presumably succumbing to exposure and he lay where he fell until his remains were eventually discovered.
Excruciatingly painful for his family, but nothing that out of the ordinary for someone suffering as he was.
I agree. It would be a lot more strange if he wasn't suffering mental issues. But it just sounds like he wandered off and got caught in that blizzard. Like his friend said, he was on the fence of reality
Yep, no mystery here. RIP
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there have been several similar suicides in wyoming. using the cold weather to do the job they say freezing to death is a painless way to go when you get to cold your body starts telling you you are warm. they find people frozen to death that have removed boots and coats because they felt to hot
Very much sounds as if he may have had a break with reality. Very mysterious.
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Like undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenia or something. How sad.
Psychotic break.. very sad. There have been stories of young men at university driving home or elsewhere just walking off and found deceased. I was a psych RN for 35 years. Several large universities were near my hospital. I worked the Psych ER. We had so many young men brought in by friends or family after episodes of odd behavior. Families did not want to believe it was mental illness. It was often thought by family that someone put something in their drink. However, they would have had a tox screen and medical eval in the med ER first. You know their lives will never be the same. His was different brought on by brain trauma but same tragic outcome. His poor mom, but at least he was found.
I think you're right. Sadly.
Ghb is not routinely tested for in tox screens. Have you heard about all the young men across this country who are out with friends then suddenly start acting erratically when they were fine just a few minutes before? Then they disappear and nobody sees them alive again. Then days or weeks later they’re found in a body of water in a place that makes no sense (it was’t on their way home or anywhere else). The cases where the coroner does their job thoroughly they find fresh water in the lungs instead of lake water, river water, etc., clearly indicating it was foul play. Don’t be so quick to jump to some mental health condition. The family knows them best. LISTEN to the family and give them the benefit of the doubt. Do you know how many crimes have gone unsolved because of a mindset like yours? Way too many. That’s the real tragedy. And the families have to live the rest of their lives knowing their loved one will never get justice because the people who should have investigated were either too lazy, complacent or just plain stupid to do their job.
I think the traumatic brain injury caused him to do all these confusing things. Rip, Donny
I have a cousin who was married, had kids and working as a grill master at a steak house. On the 4th of July weekend, him and his friends had a big bash at the lake. He dove off a cliff and impacted a rock knocking unconscious. He was rescued and spent time in the hospital. Since then, he says, he's never been married or has children. He'd a COMPLETELY different person. That's 15 yrs ago
Head trauma effects the memory in the brain long term or short term. Amnesia sorta but I'm sorry it happened. I've known a few people who technically shouldn't be able to walk nevermind alive traumatic head injuries are scary shit in any circumstance
It's called forced mind control / forced hospitalization when one awakens they try to suppress it
I'm thinking he realized he lost his briefcase, started frantically going through his vehicle and when he couldn't find it, he broke. Maybe he was just done with everything and was like F this and walked away. Maybe something deeper was triggered and he had an episode. Poor guy.
I felt the same thing might've happened....
I was thinking of him looking for his brief case too.
The newspaper clipping at around 9:18 says that Donald kemp "envisioned himself as a prophet" and that "he had told friends of gathering the masses and starting a cult". Another person claimed that Kemp "was going to start a kind of cult, that he was a prophet and a leader of men". Kemp's mother said that he was "deeply religious". I've heard this sort of story before and when religion, cults or religious fervor is involved, absolutely any type of odd behavior should come as no surprise. Kemp was either delusional, or perhaps was suffering from undiagnosed schizophrenia. He likely was answering to voices that lured him into the wilderness, where he perished from exposure.
Spot on! It's why religion can be so dangerous. I agree with everything you've said.
@@xxxneoxxx Yes religion is man made and dangerous. Religious men had the Truth (Jesus Christ) nailed to a cross because the Truth offended them.
I'm ok with the break from reality theory. But not entirely because of the strange phone calls to his friend from a number that the guy insisted he didn't make and that he has no knowledge of her friend? Leaning toward foul play.
Briefcase contents could have been involved.
Wow- I’m always excited to listen to a new episode. Interesting case about a young man who admired one of our great presidents - Abraham Lincoln. Too bad he couldn’t finish his book. It always breaks my heart ❤️ hearing about the lost dreams.
Hope your foot is healing up Bryan 👍
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Chemical imbalance can cause schizophrenia like symptoms, used to work with a fella who seemed perfectly normal......that is until he decided to go for a swim after work....nice sunny afternoon lots of people on the beach all watching Dave swimming joyfully in the water...... it was when he got out that people stopped looking at him and started looking at each other.... he was standing there dripping wet suit, tie, shoes ? Just drove to the beach and walked into the water ?
I remember when Donald Kemp went missing by Cheyenne. I know about people with brain trauma injuries. My two thoughts on this are maybe he was looking for the old Lincoln highway. There's many memorials to Lincoln along it. Seen a couple myself. Some aren't far from I-80. Since he was a Lincoln fan and had a TBI he might not been able to understand how to get to them. Weird that his family got phone calls from Casper which is along ways from I-80 area. That might be Foul Play maybe. Doesn't surprise me hunters found his body. That happens quite often in Wyoming. Have you ever done a video of Amy Bechtel? Missing from Lander Wyoming? She's never been found. My first husband worked for the Forrest service and volunteered to look for her. They didn't find much of her belongings. A watch years later. Great job with the videos Bryan!
Bryan, you always do such a great job on each story.....thank you so much for your hard work and dedication. My heart goes out to this dear soul and to his hurting family. God knows where he is. May his family and friends find peace in the Lord.🙏❤
Very interesting and strange, the man that called his friend and then denied anything doesn’t sit right with me.
The location he chose to exit his vehicle and walk into is one of Wyoming's harshest areas due to extreme wind that constantly blows from west to east and is bitterly cold in the winter. This section of interstate closes frequently in the winter due to ground blizzards making the road hazardous and at times impassible and to be out in that area during a blizzard unprepared is asking for trouble.
I've elk hunted in the vicinity of the area and it can be brutal and miserable in the winter when you are fully prepared with modern clothing and technology.
Thanks Brian I love listening! Prayers for the family.
Thank you Bryan for caring so much for the family and friends and being compassionate God Bless you Stay safe my friend 🙏🙏
I was from Wyoming. I haven't heard of this case. Thank you for sharing it.
His bag was found in the big, round haybale because he crawled in their to get warm. I don't think he was in his right mind. The injury, and maybe medications, caused hallucenations and he took off to find something he thought that he saw. It's very sad.
I wouldn't have thought of him crawling into the hay bale to get warm, that is a good point. I'm from California but I'm a truck driver and go into Wyoming regularly (I was there this morning). Yup, definiarwlt not somewhere I would want to be without supplies amd a way to stay warm
Unfortunately, there are other cases like this,one in particular of a young man who just walked with nothing into a desert, In this case it seemed as though he were creating caches of supplies in various places. At some point he must have realized he'd left behind his most important belongings, which surely must have triggered some fear or concern in someone who is already having serious mental issues.
Thanks for the video. I enjoy your style of narration. Sometimes creators feel too polished. I like your natural, conversational tone.
The guy had a severe head injury. All of his actions can be attributed to the head injury. A messed up brain can make one do strange things. Case closed, IMO.
Thanks Bryan always love the way you tell a story Take care 🌸 Australia
My husband suffered head trauma with severe concussion at work. He remembers nothing for few weeks of that time. But he did some bizarre things. It's like our head keeps a running tape of our normal routines but the head trauma knocks some of that stored routine out and your mind is running hit and miss. For instance, my husband always makes coffee every morning. He did it like normal 3 days then the 4th day he woke me up to say the coffeemaker wasn't working. I went in and he had tried to make coffee in the blender. That was so unlike him and bizarre. He knew enough to make coffee but was missing the info about the coffeemaker. Another thing was insisting he had to go back to work. Even though he could see how injured he was in the mirror and kept asking me over and over again what happened to him, he persisted in saying he had to go back to work. He knew his boss's phone number but couldn't tell his boss what happened. He was sort of talking gibberish. Two weeks later he could repeat his address but then say the President was Ronald Reagan (it was Obama). Slowly things came back into perspective after about a month. He still isn't the same but only I really notice it. That was 7 yrs ago and he's still working. He's easily distracted, has short term memory problems and he doesn't have the same equilibrium. He used to have excellent balance. But he is alive and high functioning so God is good.
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Thank you Bryan another fascinating story! Praying for your swift healing…
Thanks for the vid Bryan!
His stuff being found strewn about reminds me how terribly windy it is near Cheyenne Wyoming. I lived off grid where this man went missing. It’s peaceful but there are torrential storms.
Poor Donald, and his family. I feel so bad for all of them. Maybe someday we will have an answer to his death. Thank you Bryan, for your EXCELLENT WORK. Much appreciated from Colorado. Hope your health is improving.
Even without a mental illness, just feeling down, makes one want to get out onto nature-perhaps, not preparing well. Nice heart-felt narration/story@Bryan as usual.
I'm new to your channel and have binge watching. EXCELLENT story telling!!!
I’m wondering if he had a break with reality, and walked out into the wilderness and something happened to him, a brain aneurysm, or a stroke, or even an attack from a wild animal. I’m wondering, though, if it wasn’t him that made a great big mess of his things and put things in different places in the surrounding area. To me, this looks like the work of a wandering homeless person, grabbing what he thought he could use, carried what he could carry, and stashing the rest in hiding places. I think it was two separate things that took place: the missing man had an episode and wandered into the wilderness, and after that, someone came across his belongings and hid them around the area for safekeeping.
At least he was finally found.Nowadays there's alot of weird things happening given drug use/ abuse.People showing up at all hours on doorbell cams,trail cams,middle of nowhere etc.Getting so nothing is beyond question.Since this man had a brain injury the resulting scar tissue may have resulted in abnormal thinking depending on how healing took place .Another possibility is he suffered a stroke or similar event as a result of the previous injury.If you have a friend or loved one in this predicament do what you can to watch over them.Sometimes injury can cause depletions of necessary mineral elements in the mind/ body resulting in off balance thought issues.An electrolyte imbalance in the mind.It takes time,sometimes years.Even a digestive uptake disorder causes similar issues of depletion of critical elements.Unfortunate this happened to him.Hard to say,he may have been at peace.
Post surgery adhesions can cause damage to surrounding tissue. People do heal & scar differently.
I want to thank you for your compassionate manner in making these videos. I appreciate the sympathy towards these families. Great channel 👍👍
Hello Brian just found your channel. Awesome job mate,
Thanks and welcome
One hour and 1300 views! 435 likes! Great content - Like always...Thank you for explaining everything with such detail. This video was done extremely well!!
During World War Two people who were evading the Germans in the winter would hide in the haystacks to stay warm and hide. Just a thought on the suitcase in the haystack.
I'm wondering if the phone call thing was just someone who wanted to get into the story but the item hidden in the haystack baffles me knowing the desolation of that area. Someone may have found it and hidden it out of guilt. Your stories are always so well done, Bryan. This one was especially interesting because I live in Wyoming. I don't remember this one, I must have been living in my own little world then.
As far as the haystack he may have just climbed in there to try to keep warm instead of building a fire
Sounds like that boys cheese slid off his cracker...
A psychotic break from a head trauma. Making sudden lifestyle changes and becoming unexplainably obsessed with Lincoln are signs of psychosis IMO.
This reminds me of the book into the wild. About the kid from back east that was really smart in college, came from a well to do family. And just got sick of it all and walked away from it all. And was found starved to death in that bus in the Alaska mountains. It's just all so weird
I recommend looking into that story more. The poor kid was reacting strongly to a very unhappy family life that presented outwardly as functional. So sad, his journal entries expressed true despair and terror which is so hard to think about... Sleeping alone and cold, starving in that bus. The very last of his entries expressed peace, but he had to suffer so long before that point. I believe he had a subconscious death wish. Regardless, it's terrifying.
Chris McCandless.
He didn't starve. He ate poisonous wild berries & died a slow painful death over 5 days .
Cris McCandless died of stupidy, youth and naivety. Don Kemp at least had head injuries.
He died due to his completely inexperienced endeavor.
Oh wow. I forgot that Raymond Burr hosted the show originally. That was one of my favorite shows when I was a teenager. Great storytelling, Bryan (as always)!
I don't remember him on it at all. I'll have to look it up
I think he lost touch with reality and just wondered off and eventually succumb to death.
You seem genuine and original, reminds of the good old youtube days, subscribing
I had a TBI as a child hit by a truck my mother and everyone said that I totally became a different person I'm 53 now and have never been very successful in life so IDK what would have been if not for the accident Mr.Kemp most likely had some serious breakdown mentally and just lost touch with reality our brain is truly complex and injuring it can cause unforseen problems
He was just done with it all. It has crossed my mind at times (I also have TBI) and you just snap. That is what i imagine happened to Donny.
There's a pattern of people having psychotic/neurotic breaks with reality and then immediately disappearing after. It's as if they're drugged or being affected by something external that alters their mind
Worked in a neuro rehabilitation facility for 30 years and my thinking is that the head injury most likely was the thing in this case.
It sounds like he may have had a mental breakdown. So Sad. I wish they had found him, before it was too late. God Bless his Family.
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Thank u for all your work !
The phone calls are really weird. What the heck was going on with that. I wonder if at some point he stumbled on this guy and then walked back.
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Things he did do not make sense to those of us in our right minds. He was not and that’s evident by what he did. I can only pray he RIP.
He lost his marbles while alone and the worst happened. Sad
Excellent thorough reporting Bryan!
Upper-middle class life in NYC-that’s psychosis; whatever issues he had, he was seeking and closer to sanity in WY!
I don't get how the mom Mary Kemp was upset with the authorities who did everything they could to find this guy. I just think it's sad that the rescuers and civilians who spent their own time shouldn't be belittled.
This reminds me of a case David Paulides covered. I can’t remember the location, or the particulars of where he was going. But it was a young man who, I believe abandoned his car and called his family in a panic. The family could tell he was running and he said “they” were after him. I guess we will never really know what leads to these incidents. Anyway, this is such a sad story for Donny and his family and friends. ❤️
I have worked in TBI. Trying to logically understand Donald's thoughts and thus behaviors is difficult if not impossible.
One of the classic signs of being suicidal is giving away your stuff. Because that's one of the first things mentioned in the video about his departure from New York I'd look at that as a cause for his disappearance more than anything else. It's certainly possible he just went on a walkabout, got disoriented, became hypothermic, etc, but given the time that has passed no one will know.
I know this video has been out for awhile, but I'm just not watching it.
So.... I want to say, even though it's really far-fetched someone could have put something in his drink or food and caused him to hallucinate. Maybe it took awhile to really kick in. It does happen. It's seems he was fine before this because he found the museum and probably stopped somewhere to eat, so it's after he left something went wrong.
Very eerie. But I'm sure there's a logical explanation.
Been thinking more about this ... since he left all those needed things behind tells us something happened while he was there at the last spot. I can't imagine him forgetting his briefcase unless something was off. It does sound to me like it may have been drug related because of the windows and doors being open in the car, as if he was hot, or panicking, anxiety, etc. He was fumbling for something in the car trying to find his briefcase that possibly had something in it he thought might give him relief. Aspirin, stomach med, whatever. That panic state may have been the reason he just quickly got out and started walking, leaving everything behind.
As I said in the upper comment, someone could have tainted his drink or meal during his time at the museum. If they have food and drinks there...I don't know. But it's so sad because he was alone.
That was Robert Stack not Stock…..
My family member is bipolar. He packed up his car and disappeared in the Arizona desert. Cops found him alive finally. He literally threw his expensive belongings out of his car in many AZ towns. So it doesn't surprise me that this guy did the same thing. I'm from Wyoming and the snow& wind here is no joke.
My son was on a skateboard, it got away from him and went down a curb where he hit the back of his head on what was a really bad idea of putting big raised yellow knobs, meant to stop skateboarding. It was Christmas and I'm a deserted parking lot, my son was just learning how to ride. These raised yellow knobs not only harm kids playing on wheeled toys on the sidewalk, as a sick punishment, they also make wheelchairs unable to use the curb that was placed there specifically for them. Whose dumb idea? I don't know. But my son couldn't remember people, he couldn't remember that we took him you the hospital an hour ago when he demanded to go to the hospital a second time. The ER thought it was no big deal, said he had no injury to his head, but when i got home i saw a big bloody spot in the shape of those yellow knobs, so they didn't look very closely.
My son got his memory back over the next couple of days, but he went from being an A student, super bright and got along with everyone, to he couldn't take a test, he couldn't stand the lights, he became depressed and he did have at least one hallucination. He became quiet when he had been outgoing. He's got a good job but he acts like he barely knows me agree we were so close.
Head injuries can't be taken lightly, especially in the back of the head. I'm really sad that i was so naive to just trust the ER when they said he was fine.
I suffer with mental health. I'm on pills for life. 3 years ago I couldn't get my pills for four days. Work commitments. I lost the plot and walked out of work. Lost my job, house, respect , dignity, everything. When the mind goes you can't do shit about it. I'm ok now.
I had a friend who hit a power pole with a motorcycle, he got a head injury and psychosis, eventually went off the deep end and basically walked the streets for years, lighting cars on fire and doing other weird things. Before the accident he was extremely active and healthy but he eventually died from the effects of obesity. I think Don had no idea of what he was doing and wandered off to his death, sad.
Maybe TBI , medication or mental health due to his accident causing him to do unimaginable things happen BUT with his mental capacity could have trusted the wrong person ?????? And led him to come to his demise! Just a thought
He was upset, stress, high blood pressure. Could of had an ann you is um. Sever headache. Broken blood vessel cause him to become confused, disoriented.
i vagely remember this story, way back when i first moved to eastern Wyoming in October of 1999. Thanks for the detailed story...i was never afraid of bad weather till i moved here. Sad story but at least he was finally found for the families closure even though he was not alive. Ive learned alot about head injuries not personally to me but a few others that i know of that now have siezures .
Thank you for this story, and although I was a regular viewer of Unsolved Mysteries, I had never heard of this case. Heck, I didn't even know Raymond Burr was host before Robert Stack. But anyway, thank you for remembering this tragic case.
Raymond Burr is an actor had a show called Perry Mason. Show was in black and white on the tv.
Great presentation & narration🕊🌏🕊
To me it sounds like he had a bad LSD trip. Not saying he was doing that. Or had a mental break. Back than acid was a thing. My brother had a mental break from acid. That’s why I’m saying this. My heart goes out to the family and friends of the this young man. My prayers are with your pain.
As a person who has had a NDE, I can say Don's experience is right on. When one faces death, or severe trauma, one realizes the shit we've been fed all our lives as to what "success" and what life is about is simply lies. No psychosis, nothing but realizing the lies. And what an awakening when one one realizes they've been lied to all their life. It's soul crushing.
Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge.
That's quite the screen name lol
@@knucklehead4233 likewise, knucklehead.😜
It happened to me , too. I know what this man was fighting- the horror of it. Some how Jesus found me.. I’m still trying to walk out of the wilderness.
Jesus is the answer, and the truth. The day I repented of my sins and asked Jesus to save me was the day I began living.