On June 1st, 1987, 16 year old Theresa Ann Bier said goodbye to her family in Fresno as she left for a camping trip. She and Russell Welch, 43, were headed into the Sierra Nevada to hunt the elusive Bigfoot, specifically Shuteye Peak, where Welch thought they would find one.
But Welch returned to Fresno alone.
He would tell police that Bier had run away from him at first, but later change his story to say that he and Bier had become separated during a hike, and that she was forcefully kidnapped by a Sasquatch. Without a body, they felt unable to convict him of her murder, and no trace of Theresa has ever been found.
I’ve found very little information online about the surrounding circumstances of the case, and I think there are a lot of interesting questions to be raised.
