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Deserted: What Happened to Michael and Chucky Palmer?



The disappearances of two brothers, a little more than a decade apart, make no sense. Only the friends who’d last seen them could say what happened, and in each case, they had no plausible explanation. Both brothers were left behind when their friends sped ahead of them, Michael’s friends on bikes and Chucky’s on snowmachines. Were their disappearances a horrible coincidence, or something else? Will their family ever learn the truth about what happened to Michael and Chucky Palmer?

Sources:

Aho, Karen. “Police press hunt for missing teen.” July 17, 1991. AK Fatal.

Ames, Mary. “Youth still missing after seven years.” May 26, 2006. Frontiersman.

Charles Edwin Palmer V. The Charley Project.

Michael Timothy Palmer. The Charley Project.

“Missing person case from last year still a mystery.” May 4, 2011. KTNA Community Radio for the Susitna Valley.

“Overlapping Disappearances: the Brothers Palmer.” December 29, 2012.  Ididitforjodie.

Saul, Joshua. “The last brother.” April 15, 2010. Anchorage Daily News.

Young, Nikki. “The ones left behind.” January 16, 2026. Medium.

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