Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper (left) and his team were descending the Huascaran peak (right) in the Andes mountains after an unsuccessful summit push in June when they noticed an anomaly in the glacier landscape.

Bill Stampfl was reported missing in June 2002, aged 59, when an avalanche buried his climbing party on Mount Huascaran in the Ancash region of Peru. But his son Joseph got a call from a stranger on June 29, almost exactly 22 years later, to say he had come across the climber's frozen body, as he made his own ascent up Huascaran. 'I think we were all in a little disbelief at first. It had been 22 years but on a daily basis we had not been waiting,' he told DailyMail.com. He immediately sprung into action and began working on the logistics of bringing his father's body home. However, the US embassy in Peru, who were helpful in the initial search more than two decades ago, just offered a list of funeral homes.

On March 13, Roy McGrath, 53, left his $1 million home in Naples, Florida, and told his wife Laura that he had been planning to travel to Maryland for his court hearing. But he vanished, with the FBI following him 800 miles to Tennessee and monitoring multiple cell phones that he used while on the run. Since being the Executive Director of the Maryland Environmental Services (MES), he was accused of stealing more than $270,000 in state funds over a year. On March 15, two days after his hearing was supposed to begin in Baltimore, Maryland, the FBI searched his house. The FBI worked with US Marshals to locate McGrath before he was charged during the shooting, according to Baltimore Banner reports close to the probe. It's unclear if he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound or as a result of law enforcement's shooting of him. It comes as a mystery author is being investigated after releasing a 'tell all book' dendenying the charges against ex-Governor Larry Hogan's former chief of staff just days before he was killed in a standoff with the FBI. McGrath resigned from Hogan in 2020 and is accused of telling MES that the former governor had approved the payments, something Hogan denies.