The Search for Bob Smith
Blood Trails Case Files
Bob Smith stepped into the Maine woods on a November afternoon in 1997 and never came back.
His wife heard a single gunshot. Then... nothing.
What followed was the largest ground search in the history of the Maine Warden Service. Investigators found clues—a set of boot prints, a strange arrow in the dirt, even a dead moose nearby—but none of them led to Bob.
As the search dragged on, rumors surfaced: out-of-state hunters who left early, a story about an accidental shooting, and people who may have known more than they said.
Was Bob Smith the victim of a tragic accident… or something far more deliberate?
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