The treasure hunters on a deadly quest for an eccentric's $2m bounty
by Samuel Gilbert in Santa Fe, New Mexico from on (#3T6QW)
Four people have died seeking a bounty hidden in the Rockies, with only a riddle as a guide. As the casualties mount, the millionaire who buried the treasure insists it's not a hoax
Sacha Johnston was inching along a dirt road in a narrow canyon in northern New Mexico. "Just guide me," Johnston said to her search partner, Cory Napier, who directed Johnston and her white Toyota 4Runner. "This road can be brutal."
The pair had come to this starkly beautiful place, at the base of the Sangre De Cristo mountains, to hunt for a treasure rumored to be worth upwards of $2m.
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