LATEST UPDATE: The full GPS trail of Chris Palmer’s final journey has shocked everyone — it turns out everything had been planned long before he disappeared.
Cold, precise location data has now pieced together a hauntingly deliberate route. From the moment Chris brought Zoey — his loyal companion — and left her in a place no one would ever expect, to the abandoned red Ford F250, the mysteriously vanished kayak, and the personal belongings discovered one by one along the coastline — nothing was random. Every stop, every trace, every silence appears to have been part of a carefully designed farewell.
What chills investigators and the public alike is not the disappearance itself, but the calm intention behind it. This was not panic. Not confusion. It was a man choosing the end of his journey on his own terms, surrounded by the nature he loved, after quietly putting everything in place for those left behind. The greatest shock now isn’t what happened — it’s how long he had been preparing for it.
DARE COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) – The father of a missing Arkansas man who was last seen on the Outer Banks believes his son committed suicide because of a terminal illness.
Chris Palmer was declared missing by Arkansas authorities on January 16th after rangers found his truck abandoned on the beach at Cape Hatteras National Seashore on January 12th.
Officials say a blue and white kayak was seen in the back of Palmer’s truck in the surveillance video, but it was not found when rangers located the vehicle.
In a social media post this evening, Bren Palmer says they recently learned that the 39-year-old man was facing a terminal illness.
“Christopher loved the outdoors and valued his independence,” the father wrote. “The treatments ahead would have taken much of that away, and he did not want that future for himself.”
Bren Palmer said personal belongings of his son were found along the coastline. and they believe he perished in the ocean.
The family has asked that all active searches for Palmer be ended.
