{"id":10335,"date":"2026-04-24T13:06:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/the-search-for-bob-smith\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:06:30","slug":"the-search-for-bob-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/the-search-for-bob-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"The Search for Bob Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bob Smith stepped into the Maine woods on a November afternoon in 1997 and never came back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>His wife heard a single gunshot. Then&#8230; nothing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>What followed was the largest ground search in the history of the Maine Warden Service. Investigators found clues\u2014a set of boot prints, a strange arrow in the dirt, even a dead moose nearby\u2014but none of them led to Bob.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Was Bob Smith the victim of a tragic accident\u2026 or something far more deliberate?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themeateater.com\/listen\/blood-trails-case-files\/the-search-for-bob-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Smith stepped into the Maine woods on a November afternoon in 1997 and never came back. His wife heard a single gunshot. Then&#8230; nothing. What followed was the largest ground search in the history of the Maine Warden Service. Investigators found clues\u2014a set of boot prints, a strange arrow in the dirt, even a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.ctfassets.net\/pujs1b1v0165\/2Tn05i88Xjx2hEeSgxp8pg\/d6070116b37ab24001ed27637c16d664\/YOUNG_feature.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hunting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10337,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10335\/revisions\/10337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}