Lisanne Froon Night Photos | Kris Kremers

What is not disputed is the metadata: At 4:03 AM on April 8, 2014, deep in the Panamanian jungle, someone held a Canon camera above a rushing river and took the last picture. The flash popped. The shutter clicked. And then, the camera went dark forever.

The photos give us almost enough information to solve the case. They show a location. They show a person. They show a time. And yet, the essential "who" and "why" remain in the shadows. Ten years later, the official Panamanian investigation concluded the women died from a "fall and subsequent exposure." The Kremers and Froon families accepted this, closing the door on the pain. But the internet never accepted it. Kris Kremers Lisanne Froon Night Photos

We have 90 photos of a rainforest, but the final 11 are a séance. We are looking at the last visual record of two young lives. The flash illuminates not the trail, but the absence of a trail. The red hair, the wet rock, the plastic bag—these are the detritus of a catastrophic event. What is not disputed is the metadata: At

Whether that person was Kris, Lisanne, or someone else—that question is the sound of 90 minutes of hell frozen in digital amber. If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon, please contact the Panamanian National Police or Interpol. And then, the camera went dark forever

But it wasn't the mundane contents that shattered the case open. It was the data on the phones and, most disturbingly, the taken on the camera between March 31 and April 8. The first 83 images were daytime shots—normal tourist photos of the jungle, a map, and each other.