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- 14 January 1991 About 1:00 pm, after a pepperoni pizza lunch at 7-Eleven, during 5th period at his school, 18-year-old Scott Lancaster was killed while jogging on a trail above his high school in Idaho Springs, Colorado. The youth was attacked by a mountain lion and drug yards uphill before his death.
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Nov 17, 2003 · In “The Beast in the Garden” David Baron chronicles the events that lead to the fatal mountain lion attack on high school student Scott Lancaster in Idaho Springs, CO in the early 90’s. From increasingly large deer herds in the Boulder, CO area to the return of the puma in residential suburbs, “The Beast in the Garden” is an ...
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Mar 11, 2005 · VAIL – In 1991, Scott Lancaster became the first person killed by a mountain lion in Colorado history. The attack shouldn’t have happened, and it was even being predicted.In the book “Beast in the Garden,” journalist David Baron argues what really killed Lancaster was a distorted perception of America’s wild lands.”The point of my ...
14 January 1991 About 1:00 pm, after a pepperoni pizza lunch at 7-Eleven, during 5th period at his school, 18-year-old Scott Lancaster was killed while jogging on a trail above his high school in Idaho Springs, Colorado. The youth was attacked by a mountain lion and drug yards uphill before his death.
- Idaho Springs, Colorado
- August 17, 1972
- Lakewood, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
Feb 15, 2019 · Since 1890, there have been 25 documented fatal mountain lion attacks in North America, according to wideopenspaces.com. Two have been in Colorado: 18-year-old Scott Lancaster was killed while jogging on a hill near Clear Creek High School in Idaho Springs, and, in 1997, 10-year-old Mark Miedema was killed while hiking out ahead of his family ...
Jan 20, 2004 · Then a mountain lion showed up on the scene, and the county sheriff and his colleagues became the first to make the connection: Lancaster, a healthy adult, had been killed by a wild predator.
Dec 3, 2020 · On January 14, 1991, Scott Lancaster, 18, left for a trail run on a rocky hillside above his Idaho Springs high school. He was never seen alive again. A few days later his body was found about a half mile away. A 100 lb mountain lion was spotted nearby. Scott had become the first confirmed mountain.
May 23, 2021 · The mountain lion killed and ate the boy, and his body — “hollowed out like a pumpkin” — wasn’t found until two days later, recounts David Baron in the book “Beast in the Garden.” On that January day, Lancaster became the first human killed by a mountain lion in Colorado’s history. Big biological questions arose.
