![]() Something like a Nissan Rogue or even a Toyota 4Runner would have a hard time,” Cannon said. Even a small four-wheel drive SUV would be very, very difficult. “It would be virtually impossible for an off-the-rack, off-the-showroom-floor minivan or passenger car to get up here. Cannon found himself, instead, hiking halfway down that hill to update reporters, friends and family who had gathered for news. Many could not summit the steep hill that led to the mouth of the cave. ![]() News trucks, gathered during the 27-hour rescue attempt, struggled to reach the site. The terrain is also a problem for the theory. And so we had deputies here 24/7, from early on Thanksgiving morning until it was sealed on December 2nd with concrete,” Cannon said. ![]() “There are those, a smaller number, who might want to go inside and do something or collect something. “The opening of Nutty Putty Cave was permanently closed with 30 yards of concrete and explosives on the second of December.” “Susan was seen up until the sixth of December ,” Cannon said. The timing is one key reason why West Valley City got so many tips about Nutty Putty Cave in connection with Susan Powell’s 2009 disappearance, but Cannon is quick to point out the timeline doesn’t support the location as a final resting place for the young mother. 27 hours after they first entered the cave to attempt to rescue Jones, he was confirmed to have died. Ultimately, the attempt to rescue Jones would fail when equipment that was being used to help hold his weight while rescuers worked to free him failed, and he fell back into the same section where he had been stuck at the beginning of the attempt. The people who were rescued, successfully, in those previous close calls, were not as “deep” in the cave as John Jones. Utah County’s search and rescue team members were familiar with Nutty Putty, which was actually closed for several years prior to 2009 because of previous rescues. “We know now that John had been there, but we don’t know that anyone else had ever been there.” “ in an unnamed, really unexplored part of the cave that, as far as we know, nobody had been to,” Utah County Sheriff’s Sergeant Spencer Cannon told Cawley in the spring of 2019. ![]() John Jones died in Nutty Putty cave on Nov. After struggling to breathe for several hours, John became unresponsive shortly before midnight.John Jones and his wife, Emily Dawn Jones. Rescuers began a different approach, using air-powered tools to chip away at some of the rock surrounding John.īut after more than 24 hours trapped upside down, the pressure and stress on his body became too much. "He's not in great shape physically, there's a lot of pressure on his upper body and back - but he's been amazingly resilient and he has incredibly high spirits under the circumstances," Sgt Spencer Cannon said at the time. He was given an IV drip and some food and water, and was even able to speak to his wife over a police radio.Įveryone was relieved - but then there was a heartbreaking twist.Īn equipment failure caused the rope system to plunge John right back into the same gap he'd been trapped in previously, and the rescue operation was back to square one.įor more shocking stories from the Daily Star, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here
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