Colorado in shock after the discovery of three bodies in an advanced state of decomposition in a desert area of Gunnison County. They would be members of the same family: Rebecca Vance , 42, her sister Christine Vance, 41, and Rebecca's 14-year-old son . The macabre discovery on July 9, only today the recognition of the bodies. " I've been there for several months, maybe a year ," explained the coroner.
They were "afraid of where the world was going," said a relative, and they had tried to isolate themselves, to live on the edge of civilization , in the desert, but they died of hunger. According to the first reconstructions, made thanks to the testimonies of those who knew the group, the three had decided to abandon their lives to start over outside the network of social contacts. And to do so they had tried to isolate themselves, getting as far away from civilization as possible. “Rebecca had a lot of fears about the future,” explained her half-sister Jara, who grew up with Christine and Rebecca. "He was actually trying to save his son and our sister," he added. The aftermath of life during the Covid-19 pandemic is also the basis of this drastic decision.
A few days before leaving for Gunnison, the Vance sisters had stopped at the house of relatives to leave some family possessions and say goodbye. “We tried to stop them, without success. They had decided to leave, without telling us where they were going,” they explain. According to the doctor who arrived on the spot, "the three would have died of hunger and cold, with the first winter frosts". In fact, the tent they had chosen as their new home would not have sufficed as a shelter and the snow and the incessant frost would have caught them unprepared.
(Unoineonline/vf)