Florida Teens Lost at Sea Sent Ominous Snapchat to Friends: 'We're F'd

Two Florida adolescents who vanished while angling together adrift the previous summer may have sent the message, "We're f'd," to companions on Snapchat as climate conditions turned awful.

A trove of 128 pages of online networking posts, investigative reports, phone tower records, meeting notes and FBI messages discharged for the current week by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission paint the photo of an unspoiled day on the water turned disaster for two Tequesta young people and everybody who adored them.

Reports documented by different examiners demonstrate that the young men, 14-year-old Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos, woke up around 9 a.m. on the morning of July 24 at the home of Carly Black, Austin's mom. Perry had continued through to the end with Austin and Black drove them to the home of Richard Kuntz, Austin's maternal granddad, where the vessel had been put away. The young men snatched $100 that Kuntz had left for them on the counter, stacked the pontoon and took off.

After a brisk stop at the home of Diane Stephanos, Austin's fatherly grandma, to get ice, protein bars, angling posts and gas jars, they set out toward Jupiter Inlet's Jib Club. They were $13 short for the fuel they required, yet no stresses – they could just pay the distinction whenever they halted in, assistant Jeffrey Krizka reported.

With a guarantee to follow through on the obligation, the young men again hit the water at around 11 a.m. At 11:24 and 11:25, Black and Blu Stephanos, Austin's dad, both got instant messages from their child.

"What's up I'm looking at in I'm simply here angling."

In spite of the fact that the message is the last known correspondence amongst Austin and his folks, it might not have been the last the youngster sent that day. Different companions and schoolmates told examiners they got Instagram and Snapchat posts from Austin. One Snapchat posted under Austin's "austinfishkille" username included four angling poles lined up with a perspective of the water and the words, "Peace out Jup."

Yet, another may yet demonstrate a frightful sign that the young men knew they were in a bad position. A few companions report accepting a Snapchat post with the words, "We're f'd," however it's hazy exactly when the post was sent. A December letter from Snapchat reacting to a subpoena documented by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission calls attention to that legislative substance subpoenas are "not adequate legitimate procedure to force creation of non-substance records, for example, Snap logs." Anything more than essential endorser data would require a court request issued under the Stored Communications Act or a government or state court order.

One missing persons report incorporated into the discharged archives additionally recorded a "Peace out Jupiter" post on Austin's Instagram record and demonstrates that few companions said the young men let them know they were wanting to angle "far away shore" for dolphin.

Mobile phone records, notwithstanding, propose that the young men may have adhered moderately near inshore waters, at any rate amid the early hours of their journey. Messages between the FBI's Paul Bruno and David Magnuson reference records from AT&T indicating cell tower hits from Austin's iPhone seaward at 11:25 a.m., yet back inshore at 12:02 p.m.

"That is the thing that the records reflect, yet AT&T records various admonitions all through their records with regards to the unwavering quality of the GPS information, so it must be seen with an eye of alert," Special Agent Magnuson composed. "This hit was at 12:02:43, and the hit only preceding that was at 12:02:20. Look at the catch, inside 23 seconds, the telephone was a mile far from the 12:02:43 hit. I should say the precision (superior to anything 330 meters) is intriguing."

At around 1:30 on the evening of the young men's vanishing, a tempest whipped through the Jupiter zone from the west and traveled east seaward. Winds hit 20-40 miles for each hour and went on for only 20 minutes. Sadly, that may have been sufficiently long to demonstrate obliterating for the young men and their families. Records demonstrate that Austin's telephone disengaged from the Internet at around 1:16 p.m. furthermore, there were no information passages recorded thereafter.