The Unsolved Mystery In South Dakota That Still Baffles People Today

Arnold was 20 at the time, Ruby just 19, and they were the young parents to a baby daughter. They were driving near Lake Andes with Ruby's cousin Tracy Dion, then just 17, and were involved in a horrible accident.

According to the cousin Tracy, all three had been drinking that night, and on a dark winter night, this is not very surprising. But what happened after the crash is where things get unusual.

Paramedics arrived on the scene to see Tracy still trapped in the car, but Ruby and Arnold were nowhere to be found. They had left her behind and hadn't tried to get her out, and just sort of disappeared. Luckily, paramedics were able to save Tracy. As for the other two, they couldn't be found. A search was conducted, but after that night they just vanished. Questions began to circulate - why had they left Tracy behind, and where did they go?

In the still-thawing ditch not far from the site of the crash, a passing driver saw a frozen body. This body was Ruby Bruguier's. By now, it had decomposed a fair amount. What was odd about it was that her glasses and shoes were nowhere to be seen, but her clothes were completely intact. Strange... but what was found next was even weirder.

By noon the next day, the police who were called onto the scene had discovered another body - it was Arnold's. But his body was in a completely different condition than Ruby's. His was described as much more fresh. None of his body was frozen to the ground like Ruby's, and his skin color was described as relatively normal. The assumption before that was that they must have died at around the same time after the crash, but this completely threw that theory out of whack. Why was Arnold's body much less decomposed than hers?

But this isn't even the strangest thing yet. A witness claimed to have seen Arnold and a few others weeks after the crash at a New Years Eve party. A polygraph test proved later this witness wasn't lying. But what on earth would have had to happen to cause them to crash, leave Tracy behind, Ruby to die first, Arnold to mysteriously reappear later, then die at a later time than the person he went missing with?