Episodes
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In the final episode of Season Two, host Will Rice brings the story to the present with an in depth look at the San Pedro Police's latest report on the double homicide of Gary Swank and Mario Graniel.
Theme music and the song "Hope" were written and recorded by Alex Flock: www.alexflock.com.
Additional Music: Unfolding Plot, Trailrunner and White Filament performed by Blue Dot Sessions, www.sessions.blue.
Season Two of Down the Path is sponsored by The Flyfish Journal. Visit www.theflyfishjournal.com/downthepath for a special offer available to Down the Path listeners.
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In Episode Four, Part Two, host Will Rice attempts contacts the US State Department and the FBI as additional details in the plot to murder fly-fishing guide Mario Graniel emerge.
Music: Unfolding Plot and Trailrunner performed by Blue Dot Sessions, www.sessions.blue.
Theme music for Down the Path was written and recorded by Alex Flock: www.alexflock.com.
Season Two of Down the Path is sponsored by The Flyfish Journal. Visit www.theflyfishjournal.com/downthepath for a special offer available to Down the Path listeners.
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Missing episodes?
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In Episode Four, Part One, host Will Rice looks into new developments in the case as revealed by the police report obtained in February 2020.
Music: Unfolding Plot, performed by Blue Dot Sessions, www.sessions.blue.
Theme music for Down the Path was written and recorded by Alex Flock: www.alexflock.com.
Season Two of Down the Path is sponsored by The Flyfish Journal. Visit www.theflyfishjournal.com/downthepath for a special offer available to Down the Path listeners.
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In episode three, Will Rice talks with Wil Flack of Tres Pescados Fly Shop and Guide Service in San Pedro, and recounts the early days of the manhunt for the killer, or killers, of Gary Swank and Mario Graniel.
Music: White Filament, Trailrunner, and Unfolding Plot, performed by Blue Dot Sessions, www.sessions.blue.
Theme music for Down the Path was written and recorded by Alex Flock: www.alexflock.com.
Season Two of Down the Path is sponsored by The Flyfish Journal. Visit www.theflyfishjournal.com/downthepath for a special offer available to Down the Path listeners.
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In Episode Two, Will Rice talks with people who knew Dr. Gary Swank and Mario Graniel in an effort to learn more about who they were.
Additionally, we hear from Jim Klug of Yellow Dog Flyfishing Adventures; Klug provides an industry perspective on the murders and their aftermath.
As the investigation intensifies, authorities zero in on a suspect.
Music: The Spills, Trailrunner, and Unfolding Plot, performed by Blue Dot Sessions, www.sessions.blue.
Theme music for Down the Path was written and recorded by Alex Flock: www.alexflock.com.
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On June 23, 2019, police in San Pedro, Belize, found the bodies of American Dr. Gary Swank and his fishing guide, Mario Graniel, on the flats of Ambergris Caye.
The men had been murdered in an apparent "drive-by" shooting.
One year later, there have still been no suspects charged in this case. Down the Path host Will Rice wants to know why.
Music: The Spills, Vela-Vela, and Unfolding Plot, performed by Blue Dot Sessions, www.sessions.blue.
Theme music for Down the Path was written and recorded by Alex Flock: www.alexflock.com.
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Join host Will Rice as he explores the tragic murders of Dr. Gary Swank and his fishing guide, Mario Graniel, on the flat of Ambergris Caye, Belize in June 2019.
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In the final episode of Season One, Host Will Rice brings the investigation to a close...for now.
In this episode, Will talks with an individual who met Ron's companions in Xcalak, as well as a private investigator hired to look into their return to Xcalak in 2010.
Come, follow us Down the Path.
For more info, including maps of Xcalak, Mexico, and photos of Ron and his companions, visit www.downthepathpodcast.com.
Music: Um Pepino, Thread of Clouds, Just the Feeling in the Room, and Trailrunner, performed by Blue Dot Sessions, www.sessions.blue.
Theme music for Down the Path was written and recorded by Alex Flock: www.alexflock.com.
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In Episode 05, Will explores the last of the four scenarios that might explain Ron Scheepstra's disappearance: the theory that Scheepstra engineered his own disappearance.
Additionally, Will looks into travel conditions in Mexico during the time of Ron's disappearance, including press accounts and State Department travel advisories.
For more info, including maps of Xcalak, Mexico, and photos of Ron and his companions, visit www.downthepathpodcast.com.
Music: Um Pepino, Thread of Clouds, Just the Feeling in the Room, and Trailrunner, performed by Blue Dot Sessions, www.sessions.blue.
Theme music for Down the Path was written and recorded by Alex Flock: www.alexflock.com.
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In Episode 04, host Will Rice looks into the third of the four possible scenarios that might explain Ronald Scheepstra's disappearance.
Could Ron have come across some bad guys while fishing at La Aguada that day? Drug traffickers? Poachers? People involved in the black market for human organs?
Listen in as Will talks with Jeff Dunsavage of the Missing Americans Project, as well as Cindy Scheepstra and Michael Graham.
The Down the Path theme was written and performed by Alex Flock: www.alexflock.com.
Additional music for this episode includes the tracks "Um Pepino," "Picnic March," "Trailrunner" and "Just the Feeling in the Room" by Blue Dot Sessions, www.sessions.blue.
Visit www.downthepathpodcast.com for more information, including maps and photos related to Ron's case.
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Host Will Rice takes a deeper look into some of the possible scenarios that might explain Ron Scheepstra's disappearance.
Most people agree there are only four, and after looking at them in more detail it would appear that two of those possibilities are highly unlikely.
Follow along as Rice examines the scenarios.
For more info, including maps, photos and links to further reading, visit www.downthepathpodcast.com.
To read Rice's long form article on the story, visit www.theflyfishjournal.com/exclusives/down-the-path.
Thanks to Alex Flock of Vancouver, BC, for our theme music. Learn more about Flock's work at www.alexflock.com.
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In this episode, host Will Rice take a deeper look at the events immediately before, during and after the day of Ron Scheepstra's disappearance: April 11, 2009.
This hour-by-hour assessment of that day raises as many questions as it answers. When was Ron last seen? How long after he went missing did the search begin? At what point did his fishing companions realize there was a problem?
Will Rice looks into these questions and more in Episode 02 of Down the Path.
Learn more about Down the Path at www.downthepathpodcast.com.
The theme song for Down the Path was written and recorded by Alex Flock. Learn more about Alex's work at www.alexflock.com.
Additional music: Thread of Clouds by Blue Dot Sessions; and Cast in Wicker by Blue Dot Sessions, from Free Music Archive, under CC BY 4.0.
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In Episode 01, Down the Path host Will Rice provides an overview of the days leading up to and following Ronald Scheepstra's disappearance on April 11, 2009.
A few people important to the story are introduced, including Kim Calkins (who at the time managed the Hotel Tierra Maya, where Ron was staying in Xcalak, Mexico); Michael Graham, an American expat who assisted in the search for Ron in the day's after he disappeared; and Cindy Scheepstra, Ron's wife.
The mystery begins immediately, as those close to the disappearance struggle to understand how a man can vanish completely, without a trace.
Learn more about Down the Path at www.downthepathpodcast.com.
The theme song for Down the Path was written and recorded by Alex Flock. Learn more about Alex's work at www.alexflock.com.
Additional music: Thread of Clouds by Blue Dot Sessions; and Cast in Wicker by Blue Dot Sessions, from Free Music Archive, under CC BY 4.0.
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In this episode, we introduce the Down the Path Podcast.
Visit www.downthepathpodcast.com for more info.
