An ACJ investigative series examining Karlie Guse’s disappearance through witness accounts, search efforts, terrain, family interviews, and the unanswered questions surrounding her final known movements
Riddle of the Roads: In Search of Karlie Guse is American Crime Journal’s field-based investigative series examining the disappearance of Karlie Guse.
Written by Travis Moore, the series moves beyond social media speculation and returns the case to the ground itself: the roads, search areas, witness accounts, scent trail, volunteer searches, family interviews, and terrain surrounding Chalfant Valley outside Bishop, California.
The series begins at the intersection of Highway 6 and White Mountain Estates Road, where search dogs indicated Karlie’s scent before it disappeared. From there, the investigation follows the difficult questions that have shaped the case ever since.
Did Karlie continue into the desert? Did she enter a vehicle willingly? Was she taken against her will? Or did the truth become buried beneath rumor, poor information, and the chaos that follows too many missing-person cases?
This archive collects the full Riddle of the Roads series in order.
- Riddle of the Roads: In Search of Karlie Guse, Introduction
The scent trail, Highway 6, and the three central theories. - Riddle of the Roads: In Search of Karlie Guse, Part I
Inside the Guse home and the human cost of Karlie’s disappearance. - Riddle of the Roads: In Search of Karlie Guse, Part II
Karlie’s final known hours, Dixon Lane, the suicide hotline call, and the private investigator. - Riddle of the Roads: In Search of Karlie Guse, Part III
Social media conflict, private investigators, advocacy groups, and competing narratives. - Riddle of the Roads: In Search of Karlie Guse, Part IV
Witness sightings, scent evidence, official searches, and Karlie’s last known movements. - Riddle of the Roads: In Search for Karlie Guse, Part V
Volunteer searches, drone operations, community efforts, and the search after law enforcement stood down.
