Search and rescue
Subject in True Crime
Search and rescue has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Bear Brook. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Adam ChaneyLieutenant with the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department who leads searches for lost people
Adam Chaney said rodents consume most bones in the woods, which is why deer bones are rarely found.
“you go for a walk in the woods, very rarely you find a bone. It's because the rodents chew them all up”
Bear Brook: A Private Matter, Episode 4 (Nov 4, 2026) · Listen from 40:24
Adam Chaney said long-term searches for remains are hampered because leaf cover buries bones.
“the foliage falls and grows back and comes off and it buries any kind of evidence like that”
Bear Brook: A Private Matter, Episode 4 (Nov 4, 2026) · Listen from 39:52
Jason MoonNHPR reporter; writer, reporter, and composer of the Bear Brook season A Private Matter
Moon said he wished police had searched to the 1.2-mile radius with cadaver dogs, but understood why they did not.
“do I wish they had searched out to Robert's 1.2-mile radius with cadaver dogs? Yes. Can I understand why they didn't? Yes”
Bear Brook: A Private Matter, Episode 4 (Nov 4, 2026) · Listen from 40:49
Podcasts
- Bear Brook · 1 episode
Episodes
A Private Matter, Episode 4Bear Brook · Nov 4, 2026 · 45 min
Jason Moon examines why police haven't charged Patty Hickey, a phone call that prompted a new search for Jay Hickey, and the science of finding lost people with dementia.