"Turquoise, Tenacity and Tylenol? The Unknown Wanderer"

For decades, Idaho investigators knew him only as the Unknown Wanderer. He was a man without a confirmed identity, a person whose final chapter was known but whose first chapters remained almost completely hidden.But mysteries don't always stay buried. Sometimes, old records survive.Sometimes, memories surface.Sometimes, a name that meant nothing for decades suddenly connects one piece of the puzzle to another. And when that happens, the question changes. It is no longer simply: Who was the man who wandered into Idaho? It becomes: What happened to him before he got there? We're going back through the life of the man behind the mystery. Not just the final days. Not just the strange circumstances surrounding his appearance in Idaho. But the pieces of his life that investigators have uncovered — the places he lived, the people who encountered him, the questions surrounding his past, and the long investigation that eventually began to put a name to a man who had spent decades without one. This is the story of the Unknown Wanderer. A man who arrived in Idaho as a mystery...and left behind one of the strangest unanswered stories in the state's history. Support the show