Kari Swenson was a world-class athlete with a promising career ahead of her as a biathlete. But in the summer of 1984, she went for a jog in the Big Sky wilderness area south of Bozeman, Montana and encountered two men with guns. They kidnapped her at gunpoint and took her deep into the woods. Rescue parties race to find her, and the pursuit results in a fatal confrontation.

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