Christopher Bird was 25 years old when he disappeared in July 1984. National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

In the summer of 1984, two friends decided to go on a camping trip in the White Mountains. Christopher Bird, 25, and Richard B. Brunt, 39, planned to leave on a Thursday and return that weekend.

But Bird never came home.

Brunt told authorities he last saw his friend on Sunday, July 29 at D&Q Stables, a horse farm in Windham N.H., where Brunt lived and worked as a caretaker during the summer.

During the school year, Brunt worked as the principal at New Life Christian Academy in Haverhill, while Bird was working as a special education teacher in the Haverhill public schools.

His wife, Donna Bird, had been away in Maine for the weekend with her sister. When she

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