On the night of March 12, 2000, Chester Allan Poage, 19, was abducted from his home in Spearfish, South Dakota. Over several hours, he was restrained, beaten, and drugged He was then taken to a remote and sparsely populated area of Higgins Gulch, a rugged section of the Black Hills, where he sustained additional injuries before being killed. The area's isolation meant there were no witnesses, and his body was not discovered until weeks later. Authorities later determined that the cause of death was blunt force trauma combined with other injuries sustained during the abduction, documenting the sequence of events that led to his tragic death.