[Music] [Music] currently 26-year-old Marshall iwasa is taking a drive to see his mother he has just spent the day doing chores around his home in [Music] Calgary his trip comes at a time where he's currently on break from college but he is has yet to inform members of his family that he's failed to enroll in the next [Music] semester perhaps he just wasn't ready to tell his family he needed a semester off or perhaps he had gotten involved in something else only he would know the true answer as he continued his 2-hour trip towards Left [Music] [Music] Bridge but after his arrival had a short visit with his mother to help her with her computer at around 11:00 p. m. Marshall would be set to hit the road again you see the other reason that Marshall came to Lethbridge was to pick something up from a storage unit and the original plan was to take a quick trip to this storage facility located in the industrial park of Lethbridge the then after this quick errand it would be a straight shot back to Calgary and while Marshall wished his mother a good night and S out that one evening as far as anybody else was concerned after this brief visit it was back to school and back to business as usual for Marshall but unbeknownst to his family Marshall had stopped attending classes some time ago it wouldn't be until 6 days later that some hikers would make a strange discovery [Music] [Music] this is the Felix Creek Trail in pton British British Columbia the path itself extends from an old loging road that later breaks into an open Valley that cuts up north to a location called the Brian wadington Hut this location is maintained by a volunteer outdoor club which allows individuals to spend the night up there assuming they register online the trail itself is well off the beaten path so much so that it's often cited as a location where you're not likely to run into anybody especially if nobody was scheduled to be up there but on November 23rd 2019 one post would signify a rather dark Discovery where James M Stark would write had a crazy experience this weekend trying to get to the Brian wadington Hut we took the 4x4 Trail all the way to the trail head and when we arrived we came on to quite the scene there was a burnt out pickup truck that smelled very freshh in addition there were possessions thrown all over the area including two passports three smashed cell phones a smashed laptop ID cards toiletry bags and clothing it felt like a crime scene and we had a very eerie feeling we turned around and left deciding not to hike to the Hut with a fear of walking into something obviously our whole group was thinking about the Canadian Manhunt from the summer we called the police and reported it I thought the community would like to know before anyone drives 4 hours to a trail head only to be turned around this truck was Marshall's it had been found in a matter of days a staggering 14 hours away the car was completely torched the steering column was removed but Marshall was nowhere to be found the truck had been discovered right at the end of the Logging Road right where the path morphs into a hiking trail meaning whoever did this drove the car as far as they possibly could into the woods of the items that were found at the scene this included a large amount of clothes ID cards two passports three smashed cell phones and a smashed laptop that all belonged to Marshall but that being said not all of the items were his while there's been a number of videos on Marshall's disappearance there is a threat of the story that often gets overlooked and the thread I'm referencing in this case is a separate Rabbit Hole of information that seemingly ties Marshall's case to another missing person's case from this time this other individual I'm referring to is Daniel riok he disappeared under equally bizarre circumstances just 3 days after marshal truck was found since then family members of Daniels have identified a wide array of work items found at Marshall's truck as belonging to Daniel and in an even more recent development it seemingly confirms the connection but that being said we'll Circle back to his case here in a moment because in regards to the original Discovery by the time the RCMP had reached the scene it appears as if someone had tampered with the evidence we have a bunch of items that used to be in the box that are now spread out broken and it looks like water ice poured on it things are strategically placed or broken some of it's just completely removed this again is a very remote area it was very difficult for us to get there um so it's difficult to think that in that small window of 2 days when our hikers that took the photos were leaving um that someone knew who wasn't involved with 's disappearance happened to go up there and move these items our hikers that took the photos um they've never mentioned seeing anyone there we've never seen any logs of anyone being out [Music] there as fate would have it it seems that Marshall never seemingly returned to Calgary while it would take some time before the family was notified of the situation upon checking back in with the storage facility it was revealed that after Marshall had left his mother's home he seemingly spent the entirety of the night trying to get into a storage unit but there was a problem the facility was closed closed while the actual surveillance footage was deleted by the time the family had been notified keypad records had shown that Marshall had input his access code various times over the night unsuccessfully but it appears that Marshall had waited there throughout the entirety of the night until he successfully gained entry at around 6:00 a.
m. after getting into his unit he would go on to spend 2 and 1/2 hours inside until he left at 8:24 a. m.
after this exact point there's no further details about his whereabouts his financial trail goes cold and while it doesn't appear that he returned home it definitely raises the question of what Marshall needed to get from his storage unit so desperately yeah okay so do you know why he was in the storage room so he needed um a box for a piece of his computer so so he built his own computer he was a computer guy that's what he was originally going to school for and he needed to send a piece away because his computer was broken so he was looking for something to do with his computer okay and he was in there for two hours yes okay and I guess that's normal I don't know I mean especially if you haven't been back to your storage room in a long time and if it's really full right yeah yeah he was last there in August um so it's not like he was there all the time but yeah um since then the storage unit has been searched and nothing is weird about it everything seems normal everything is still there while Marshall's family insisted that there was nothing missing from the unit it's worth mentioning a couple things for context the first of which was that Marshall had spent about 800 hours developing a video game and from what I can assume our backup timestamps it appears that he had been working on on the game the morning of prior to heading to his mother's given this detail that he was working on a passion project I can see how this would create some urgency to retrieve whatever part was necessary but on the other hand the other thing I should point out is that Marshall had seemingly packed a bag at some point with all of the clothes and toiletries found at the scene this seems to insinuate some sort of planned trip after the fact as Marshall was known to keep his trunk rather organized additionally there were quite a few items that were never located one of which was his hiking backpack which seems to strengthen this idea that there was a packed bag in his car but that being said even if Marshall had been planning a secret trip after this visit to the storage facility Marshall was not known to have any contacts out in BC making these circumstances surrounding his trip to the storage facility undoubtedly strange generally speaking finding a car burned off an Old Logging Road is not a unique Sen circumstances it's actually a pretty textbook method of disposal as torching the car leads to the destruction of DNA evidence and generally you see the removal of the steering column in cases where extra precaution is taken as in some cases DNA swab from a steering wheel has led to various convictions the V enville National Forest a body found inside a burned out car this burned out car you see here during a worker's early morning walk gai County Sheriff's Office investigating a suspicious death after a body was found in a burned out car a man's body and a burned out car found near a construction site close to Grand Avenue Deputy say the car was found on a Logging Road off Highway 155 near Mont body was found burned in Pike Township in a wooded area near Eagle Creek a body found inside a burned car in Dodge County a burned body was located Saturday morning inside a charred vehicle under gum swamp Creek Bridge Police found that burning car around 9:45 last night just beyond those pine trees is Interstate 40 I think you get the point this phenomenon is not just common it's shockingly common and the reason I bring this up in regards to Marshall's case is because of what happens next because after the RCMP had gotten involved in the following weeks this would lead to a subsequent search of the immediate area where their efforts would yield one final discovery that being a path of burnt clothes that started from the car and led to a nearby Creek where it quote appeared as if someone had caught on fire while the vehicle was burning a subsequent underwater search had revealed nothing however and further efforts to locate Marshall were suspended leading to a final statement given by police we believe that he was likely the driver there's some personal effects around in the area but there's nothing to suggest that there was uh anything um suspicious that [Music] occurred [Music] now let's recap for a moment a young man is missing his car is found 14 hours away at the end of a remote Logging Road in an area he's not known to have ties to his car is burned to an absolute crisp his steering column is removed there are items at the scene that aren't his it appears as if someone had tampered with the scene after its Discovery and there's a trail of burned clothes leading to a nearby Creek yet despite this mess of information authorities would neatly tie it up by saying nothing suspicious had occurred the mirr insinuation that he did this on his own accord is absolutely ridiculous especially when you factor in that Marshall had just recently paid off his truck yet when a push came to shove and the initial search was called off within the first week of December the Whistler RCMP would go on to insinuate that he just simply walked off into the woods but come December 12th 2019 the case would be reassigned to the Lethbridge Police Department where they kept the case open as a missing person's case but despite new leadership they would once again refuse to acknowledge any possibility of Foul Play and instead would go on to site Marshall's recent failure to attend college classes as evidence that he had become withdrawn as a consequence of the authorities refusal to classify this case as criminal no forensic tests were ever carried out and after the RCMP had collected the loose items founded the scene they simply just left the car to the elements as far as I'm aware to this very day if you hike this Trail the car is just sitting out there but after the LPD had done a final search in June of 2020 the case would take a rather strange [Music] [Music] turn after an exhaustive search in June which yielded nothing the family was rightfully frustrated by both departments who refused to classify the case as [Music] criminal you see given the fact that this case was technically a missing person's case this created a bunch of red tape preventing the full pursuit of this investigation and one potential lead that wasn't able to be fully investigated was the search for gas station CCTV footage we know from for a fact that Marshall would have had to stop for gas multiple times and while Marshall's family did check the various gas stations on the way up to pton they were only able to check the footage with the various locations that cooperated on their own [Music] accord but beyond that additional frustration could be felt for the police not even allowing the family to view the items that were found to date were only left with the various photos that surfaced online when Cassie was here there was a lot of barriers with the missing person's act and trying to get historical data of Marshall's movements prior to his disappearance um and I think that's something that we're still continuing to push for is to get those answers and get that information you know and and for me one of the biggest things would be this fire investigation that you know just happened and no no results yet right yeah from from what I've been told they're still waiting on the fire investigator report which is a month now just over a month from when they were up there um and a full almost 9 months since Marshall went missing so you know we've I've wanted a fire investigator up there like since they won yeah and for them to just have one I mean I'm happy that one went up there when they did the final search that they just completed but you know it's a little bit late and we're still waiting for that report um because you know if it's considered our sin you know that's criminal and so that I'm hoping that we could then get it pushed into a criminal case a criminal investigation absolutely it seems really strange that they would wait that long is there any idea why I mean to me it seems like anybody could go out there and tber with evidence MH right and that was our concern from the beginning of having the trucks still being out there um is that people are it wasn't a controlled site this fire investigation would later be deemed inconclusive which would bar Marshall's case from a criminal classification and as you can imagine leaving the car to the elements for 9 months definitely didn't help for clarity but that being said when the family hired a private investigator his findings differed on the site he had determined that the cause of the fire was arson and the pi was even able to locate a source lighter at the [Music] scene but despite these findings this didn't appear to shake the lpd's opinion on the case and come August of 2020 the family would launch a petition to manually push the case to a criminal classification shortly after the petition was launched and started to gain some traction the Lethbridge Police Department would go on to issue a statement the Lethbridge Police Service understands the family of Marshall iwasa is seeking answers in relation to his disappearance and we can assure the community the investigation will remain open and ongoing until he's located a thorough and comprehensive investigation has been undertaken and any and all new evidence or information that comes to light in the future will continue to be vigorously pursued aasa who was 26 years old at the time he was reported missing was last seen by his relatives in Lethbridge on November 17th 2019 he told family he was returning to Calgary but hasn't been seen or heard from since he was reported missing on November 25th 2019 after his burned out truck was located in the BC back country from the onset of the missing person's investigation ia's disappearance has been considered suspicious however as previously stated there is no credible corroborated or compelling evidence to suggest Foul Play or that the matter is criminal in nature not all information and evidence in this case has been or can be shared publicly with the aasa family in order to protect the Integrity of an ongoing investigation LPS is aware of an online petition initiated by the was a family to have the missing person case classified as criminal however in order for any investigation to be deemed criminal there must be evidence to support that a crime has occurred with respect to the AAS investigation there is no such evidence and the matter cannot be reclassified at this time no further comment or interviews will be provided in relation to this matter now the public response to the statement was overwhelmingly negative and for the various individuals who are following this case they were quick to call out some perceived contradictions first of all it appears rather inaccurate for police to claim that they considered this case suspicious from the beginning when we know for a fact that the RCMP initially stated that quote nothing suspicious had occurred and then promptly closed the case and second it's typical for a law enforcement to withhold information from the families to protect the Integrity of an investigation usually when you're building a case against a suspect yet despite this case being declared non-criminal information is still being withheld at the expense of the family which seems paradoxical given the circumstances additionally members of Marshall's family have given statements that downplay the possibility of an investigation going on behind the scenes instead insisting that they just never took his case seriously from the start because despite various new leads for this case coming in in the coming months the LPD would continue to ignore it a foul play or not arson is still a crime and this statement was given as a way of diffusing the media attention the family was generating for the case given the circumstances it definitely makes you wonder why the authorities are refusing to approach Marshall's case under the context of a criminal investigation and this question only becomes more prominent as you dive into the second thread of the story [Music] I'm the very same day that the police had reached the scene of Marshall's truck another set of incredibly strange events would unfold about an hour down the road at 10:00 a. m. 29-year-old Daniel riok had been reported walking around cheeki Ranch in Upper Squamish acting incredibly strange he wasn't dressed for the weather and at one point the Rancher had apparently spotted Danny walking in the street with his shirt over his head in freezing temperatures upon greeting the Rancher he would ask to borrow his phone where he would go on to make a call to his uncle and so Danny takes the phone and he's like hey Uncle how are you doing and he started laughing and my dad was like what's going on like are you okay he was like oh I'm living another timeline right I'm living in another timeline right now is what he said my was like okay and then he started laughing again he was like yeah I love you I love you an and then he could hear the man in the background saying oh I need my phone back so the ranch owner took the phone back and then was like okay the RCMP are here and my dad was like yeah just let him take him and and we'll figure out what's going on after as a result of Daniel's strange Behavior he was taken into police custody for the day but they inev EV ably released him at 5:00 p.
m. as they had no reason to hold him at 6:00 p. m.
Daniel would be spotted on surveillance footage at a Tim Hortons on Progress Way then at 6:46 p. m. he would be seen on surveillance at a nearby Walmart 15 minutes later he would return to Tim Horton's once again where he'd get a ride back to the chekai ranch area towards the Squamish Indian Reservation where his family was located then later that evening at 1:00 a.
m.
