He Went Missing And Only His Skull Was Found

The strange disappearance of Bart Schleyer

nahanara
6 min readJan 1, 2022
Bart (far right) in 1992. Source: schafersilvertipbow

Who is Bart Schleyer?

Bart Schleyer was born to Dr Otis Schleyer and his wife Lula Rose, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1955. Bart was a well-known outdoorsman, woodsman, hunter, and playboy. He was a trained scientist who worked for the Grizzly Bear Recovery Project in Yellowstone National Park before moving north to Alaska in the 1980s. He was a world expert in capturing, radio-collaring, and tracking tigers, and he spent months in Russia working to save endangered Siberian tigers. He had a son, Artyom with his Russian girlfriend, Tanya Perova.

Early Life

Bart’s father, Dr Schleyer, a physician who practised in Cheyenne, enjoyed hunting and brought Bart since he was a kid. Bart’s sister Claudia Downey described Bart as being obsessed with animals as a child. “He didn’t just like them; he wanted to know everything about them, study where they lived and how they lived! My dad took Bart with him on safari to Mozambique when he was 10 years old. He had a chance to witness an incredible variety of animals that he could otherwise only read about. When he finally got a chance to hunt, he was drawn even closer. Hunting seemed to give purpose to his studies.” Bart loved to draw pictures of animals a hobby he…

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