This is the Moth Radio Hour.
I'm Sarah Austin-Jeaness.
In this episode, lost and found stories, heirlooms lost,
old ways of life gone, and what is found in their stead.
Our curatorial producer, Suzanne Rust, found out about our first storyteller, Ross Jessup,
through an article in a local Missoula, Montana newspaper, and she reached out.
Ross later told us, I thought it was a scam, and so did my lieutenant.
I told my wife about it, and she said, the moth?
It's not a scam.
Call them.
I listen all the time.
So we begin this episode, Lost in the Woods of Lolo National Forest in Missoula,
Montana, with Ross Jessup, a cop, 10 years into the police force.
He came to New York to tell his story outside in Greenwood Cemetery,
so you may hear the occasional airplane.
We partner with the Greenwood Historic Fund.
And just a note, this story involves a crime and there is some intensity.
Here's Ross Jessup live at the Moth.
It's July 7th, scorching hot 95 degrees.
I'm in a Dodge Durango driving on a dusty road.