Mysterious disappearance of explorer Everett Ruess solved after 75 years

University of Colorado, National Geographic report on forensic, DNA evidence regarding Southwest folk hero

		IMAGE: CU-Boulder anthropology Professor Dennis Van Gerven, center, and Navajo Nation archaeologist Ron Maldano, right, at the Utah site where the remains of Everett Ruess were discovered in 2008. Click here for more information.

The mysterious disappearance of Everett Ruess, a 20-year-old artist, writer and footloose explorer who wandered the Southwest in the early 1930s on a burro and who has become a folk hero to many, has been solved with the help of University of Colorado at Boulder researchers and the National Geographic Society.