When young white women go missing, it makes national news.
When two men disappear, nobody but their family and friends seem to care. But it doesn't make the stories any less interesting or mysterious.
Jacob Clark-Jendrock is in his early 20s, and I assume his friend Anthony Acosta is also around that age.
They left from Palm Springs on Saturday, October 7, to drive to Sacramento for a concert. The drive is 500 miles, and does not go through any difficult terrain, nor was the weather bad.
Their families last heard from them on Saturday night. Now both of their phones are dead, and nobody can find either them or their vehicle, a 2003 Ford F-150. They did not seem to make it to the concert.
This story is strange because there doesn't seem to be a trace of these guys, despite a statewide alert to law enforcement. If they had been in a car accident on the highway, this would be known by now. If they were murdered somewhere along the way, it also would likely be known by now.
There are various possibilities at this point:
1) One of them killed the other, and then took the car and either fled or drove to a remote area to kill himself.
2) They got in a solo accident where the car ran off the road, and over the side somewhere, to where the vehicle hasn't been found yet.
3) They voluntarily decided to leave their families and start a new life elsewhere, and the concert was a cover story.
4) They pulled off to some very remote area to sleep, and were murdered, and this hasn't been discovered yet.
5) Some thing happened to both of their phones (for example, they got stolen), and they haven't thought to call home yet to assure family they're okay.
Note that this is NOT a drive which goes through many cliffs or dangerous terrain. It's all on major highways, and they do not cross any mountains along the way. I'm not even sure if there are any cliffs to where their vehicle could somehow careen off and not be discovered.
I think the most likely scenarios are #1 (one murdered the other) and #3 (they voluntarily decided to leave and start new lives). Given the amount of time that has passed since Saturday, I don't think it's all that likely that they got into an accident or were murdered at a stop, because you'd think their vehicle or their bodies would have been found at this point.
Here is a picture of Jacob Clark-Jendrock:
Don't expect much (or any) coverage of this in the media.