It contained sunglasses, a small amount of cash in American Dollars, her passport, water bottle, her camera, their underwear, and both their phones.ĭespite the location of the backpack, the items inside were in near-perfect condition. Over two months later, on 14 th June, a local woman discovered a backpack in a rice paddy along the banks of the river leading out of Boquete, many miles from where the women had entered the jungle. In the days following the disappearance, the women’s parents arrived in Panama accompanied by Dutch officials, but a large search of the area turned up no clues. Discovery of the backpack two months later. Back in the Netherlands, Kris and Lisanne’s parents stopped receiving text messages from them.ĭue to the location, it was a possibility that they had simply lost signal, gone deeper into the jungle, and had made their way back in the middle of the night.īut on the morning of the 2 nd when they missed their connection with a local mountain guide, it became evident that something had gone terribly wrong. Their families stopped receiving text messages.īoth women had promised to text every single day without fail.
The family the women were staying with confirmed they had not returned to the residence.īaru Volcano National Park in Panama, near to where the Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon disappeared. It was then the owners realised that something bad may have happened. On the night of 1 st April, the dog returned to its owners without Kris and Lisanne. One of the dogs from a local restaurant followed the girls into the jungle at around 11am, as it had a habit of accompanying hikers in the region. The dog that followed them came back alone. The volcano itself was perhaps the only witness to their demise. It holds a unique position that if you were to climb it on a clear day, you could see the Pacific Ocean on one side and the Caribbean Sea on the other. On 1 st April 2014, both women accessed their Facebook profiles and let their friends and families know they would be exploring the clouded forests around the giant active Baru Volcano (Volcán Barú).īaru is the tallest mountain in Panama, at 11,398 ft (3,474 metres), and the twelfth tallest in Central America. They travelled around the Central American country for two weeks before arriving in Boquete, in the province of Chiriquí, a mountain town and gateway to the great jungles. Having saved for six months, Kris and Lisanne arrived in Panama on 15 th March 2014. They disappeared in the shadow of a volcano. Selfie of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon taken during the fateful hike.
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