Episode 69: Kenneth Van Buskirk - Lusk, WY | The man on tank hill

He said people were trying to kill him. Then he disappeared. When Kenneth Van Buskirk’s body was finally found, investigators were left with a mystery that still hasn’t been solved.

Episode Summary

On the night of July 28, 2014, 54-year-old Navy veteran Kenneth "Ken" Van Buskirk made a series of alarming phone calls from his home in Lusk, Wyoming. He told family members that two men were inside his house and were trying to kill him. By the next day, Ken had vanished without a trace.

For nearly 18 months, searches involving law enforcement and cadaver dogs turned up nothing.

Then, in February 2016, Ken's remains were discovered on a hill overlooking downtown Lusk in an area that had already ...