The biker stopped his bike when he saw something everyone else had missed for six days.
Taylor “Ghost” Morrison, 64 years old and riding alone through the Colorado mountains, wasn’t supposed to be on that particular back road.
His GPS had died, and he’d taken a wrong turn looking for the highway.
But that wrong turn would save 8-year-old Tina David’s life, six days after the entire state had given up searching for her.
The purple backpack was barely visible in the ravine, 40 feet down from the road. Every search team had driven past this spot. Every helicopter had flown over.
But from a Harley going 30 mph, with the morning sun hitting just right, Ghost saw what nobody else had—small handprints on the dusty rock face, leading down.
He’d been riding for 43 years, through Vietnam, through his divorce, through the death of his son. But nothing had prepared him for what he’d find at the bottom of that ravine.
Tina was alive, unconscious but breathing, curled up next to the body of her mother who’d died shielding her from the crash.
The story had been all over the news. Dr. Linda David and her daughter Tina had disappeared on a trip to visit colleges where Linda might teach.
Their car was found abandoned on the main highway, no sign of struggle, no sign of where they’d gone. The FBI got involved, thinking kidnapping. Everyone assumed the worst.
