Episode

9 Days Stranded in the Nevada Wilderness; The Wrong Turn That Took a Life | E 240

Podcast: The CRUX: True Survival Stories
Published: Jun 8, 2026
Duration seconds: 1887
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Summary

In March 2022, Ronnie and Beverly Barker — a retired Air Force veteran and his wife from Indianapolis — followed their GPS onto a remote Nevada mountain road and didn't come back for nine days. Only one of them made it home.