ON THE TRAIL TO A DOUBLE MURDER Traditional Cache
Hidden : 2/27/2005
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is located at the beginning of a sandhills trail, with no actual cache container due to its location being so remote. In order to claim this as a find, please email us the words found on the sign at this location.

The cache container is a bison tube containing a log-no trade items. It is 1 1/2 miles away from the Smoyer-Wathen Monument. HOWEVER: DO NOT TRAVEL BEYOND THIS CACHE WITHOUT A 4-WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLE-THERE IS ONLY A TRAIL WITH DEEP RUTS OUT TO THE SITE!! Please leave the gates as you found them if you do travel out to the site. FYI: A cache used to be located at the site with the following information on that cache site: The location 1 1/2 miles north of here is a lonely sandhills pasture where Boone County Sheriff Lawrence Smoyer and Constable William Wathen were gunned down in the line of duty by two unknown assailants in June of 1937. The two lawmen had gone into the area to investigate a car containing two well-dressed men which had been seen driving in and around the pasture area for several days, arousing suspicions about their intentions. After the lawmen drove through the gate, the strangers' car appeared over the hill, and when Smoyer and Wathen jumped out of their car, the strangers started shooting. After the shooting, the men left the area, and their abandoned car (with 5 bullet holes in it) was discovered in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Their murders remain unsolved to this day. It isn't hard to imagine being ambushed out there! There is a more in-depth story about "the Murder in the Sandhills" in the January/February 2005 issue of NEBRASKA LIFE Magazine. UPDATE: After 80 years, these murders were officially declared solved in 2017, due to the efforts of a couple of law enforcement men in Nebraska who wouldn't let the case die. Details of the case can be found in the Boone County Historical Society Museum in Albion, NE or online.

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