It has been confirmed that the case surrounding missing hiker, Kenny Veach, is to resume in Autumn after it was decided that the case will be assigned a new team to conduct an official investigation.
The Bureau has been working on the case for 6 years, however, due to a deadlock in resolution, earlier this year the case was paused for discussion. The new approach now will be that the case is pulled apart once again and all evidence will be looked at from all angles.
The case itself, which originally was deemed as a missing persons case, had its status changed within the Bureau after evidence pointed to foul play. It also focused on the possibility that the then girlfriend was suspected as committing foul play.
Kenny Veach was a 47-year-old Las Vegas man who vanished in the Nevada desert on 10 November 2014 while looking for a cave he said was shaped like the letter M. He has never been found. The story later grew into an internet legend because of Area 51, a “vibrating cave,” and the fact that almost nothing of him turned up.
How it started
In mid-2014 Veach commented on a YouTube video called “Son of an Area 51 Technician,” using the name snakebitmgee. He said that on a hike near Nellis Air Force Base, in the Sheep Range north of Las Vegas, he had found a hidden cave whose entrance looked like a perfect capital M. He always went into caves, he wrote, but as he approached this one his whole body began to vibrate. The closer he got, the worse it felt. He became frightened and left.
Sceptics in the comments doubted him. In October 2014 he went back with a camera to prove it. He posted a video titled “M Cave Hike.” He did not find the cave. He said he saw a tarantula, a tortoise, and a black ram that watched him from a ridge. Viewers accused him of making the original story up. He said he would go again.
The last trip
On 10 November 2014 he told his girlfriend, Sheryon Pilgrim, he was going on a short overnight hike. He took his truck, a phone and supplies. He left his video camera at home. He did not come back. After a few days she reported him missing.
What searchers found
His white Honda CR-V was at the trailhead. On 22 November, Red Rock Search and Rescue found his phone near an old vertical mine shaft that appears in the October video — about a four-hour hike from the car. Commander Dave Cummings said there was no clear trail beyond that point. The shaft was checked. Veach was not in it. More than 30 searchers went out on foot over several searches; there was at least one helicopter pass. No pack, no camp, no clothes, no gun, no body.
Theories
The desert itself is a sufficient explanation for many missing-hiker cases: heat, getting lost, a fall into a mine or ravine, an animal, or a body hidden by terrain. The Sheep Range is harsh and full of old mines.
Internet lore added secret bases, the vibrating cave as a portal or weapon, government involvement, and the watching ram as something unnatural. None of that has evidence. The M cave has never been independently found or verified.
The explanation closest to people who knew him is mental health. Sheryon later wrote that she did not think it was an accident. She said Kenny had lived with depression for years, would not see a doctor, had quit his job about a year earlier, and was running out of money after trying to invent and decorate for a living. She said he had talked about suicide and that if he ever did it, no one would find him. She thought he left the phone by the shaft so it could not be used to track him, and that he did not take the camera because he was not going out to film. A sister-in-law has said he has not been legally declared dead.
Where it stands
It remains an unsolved disappearance. No remains have been identified. The M cave is still unconfirmed. What is solid is narrower than the legend: a man with desert hiking experience and documented low mood went into a dangerous area after a public argument about a cave he could not find again, and after that only his car and phone were recovered.
The case is also set to be discussed in special documentaries to be aired over social media as well as fresh appeals which are also set to go out in the hopes that new evidence can be presented. In addition, it is also planned that updates will be provided throughout the investigation.
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