Carol kept the closet door open. She said later that she did it because she could see them from her reading chair in the hallway, and it felt at a certain distance as though he had simply gone to the kitchen for something.
She wrote letters. She wrote to the National Park Service every year for the first decade, each January, requesting an update on the case’s status.
The responses were consistent and courteous. No new information had been received. The case remained open.
If she had information to contribute [music] Chinuain, she was encouraged to contact the park directly.
She kept every response in a three- ring binder. There were 14 of them. In 1983, she organized through correspondence and then through the early infrastructure of what would become a national network a gathering of families of missing persons from national park cases.
11 families attended, convening in a conference room at a holiday inn in Cheyenne, Wyoming in October of that year.
