The third photograph, the one showing the open hand, is stored alongside the other two, labeled with the same accession number.
Its Providence described in the archival record simply as source camera recovered from backcountry thermal zone, Tower Creek drainage, June 18th, 2026.
Identity of Handin frame unknown. Ray Tilman, who had been the last person to see Daniel Voss walk out of the Roosevelt Lodge and turn right toward the trail head, had gone on to graduate from UCLA, built a career in landscape architecture in the Bay Area, married twice, raised three children, and retired to a house in Sebastapole, California, where he kept a kitchen garden and two cats.Hire Architects
He had spoken to investigators twice over the five decades of the open case. Once in 1974 and once in 1988 when Robert Eves, the private detective, had tracked him down.
When Dr. Reev called him in July of 2026 to inform him of the case’s resolution, Ray Tilman was 70 years old and was sitting on his back porch in the early morning drinking coffee.
