Lost in Idaho: The Disappearance of Real Estate Broker- Fern Baird

Jennifer
The Mystery Box
Published in
7 min readNov 14, 2023

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It was a brisk fall day in October of 2020, when Fern Baird found herself visiting Ketchum, Idaho. From Park City, Utah, Fern was no stranger to the outdoors and hiking. She loved the outdoors, and not only enjoyed hiking but was also an avid skier- spending many years as a ski instructor.

On the morning of October 19, 2020, Fern Baird went down to the hotel front desk staff and asked for some recommendations on what to do in the area that day. The Prarie Creek Trail was suggested to her, and she decided that sounded like a beautiful hike.

She signed the guestbook at the trailhead, and set off to hike the nearly 10-mile loop, excited to view the different small waterfalls on her way to the lake.

On the morning of October 22, 2020, three days after Fern left for her hike, the hotel she was staying at realized that she had not been back to her room in three days. It would be the hotel staff that alerted authorities to Fern’s disappearance.

Her vehicle was quickly found at the parking lot for the Prairie Creek Trailhead.

There was no sign of Fern anywhere.

Where is Fern Alexandra Baird?

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Jennifer
The Mystery Box

Jen is the host of the missing persons podcast: "Where are they?”