Rest in peace. I pray his other half Lamont will be well taken care of.

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Nate Thayer
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Nate Thayer (April 21, 1960 – January 3, 2023) was an American freelance journalist, whose work focused on international organized crime, narcotics trafficking, human rights, and areas of military conflict. Most notable for having interviewed Pol Pot, in his capacity as Cambodia correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review. Thayer wrote for Jane's Defence Weekly, Soldier of Fortune, Associated Press and for more than 40 other publications, including The Cambodia Daily and The Phnom Penh Post.

Career
Thayer began his career in Southeast Asia on the Thai-Cambodian border, taking part in an academic research project in which he interviewed 50 Cham survivors of Khmer Rouge atrocities at Nong Samet Refugee Camp in 1984.[7][8] He then returned to Massachusetts where he worked briefly as the Transportation Director for the state Office of Handicapped Affairs.[9][10] Thayer himself noted, "I got fired. I was a really bad bureaucrat."[11]

Thayer later worked for Soldier of Fortune magazine[12] reporting on guerrilla combat in Burma,[11] and in 1989 he began reporting for the Associated Press from the Thai-Cambodian border.[13] In October 1989, Thayer was nearly killed when an anti-tank mine exploded under a truck he was riding in.[14] In 1991 he moved to Cambodia where he began writing for the Far Eastern Economic Review.[15][16]

In August 1992 Thayer traveled to Mondulkiri Province and visited the last of the FULRO Montagnard guerrillas who had remained loyal to their former American commanders.[17] Thayer informed the group that FULRO's president Y Bham Enuol had been executed by the Khmer Rouge seventeen years previously.[18] The FULRO troops surrendered their weapons in October 1992; many of this group were given asylum in the United States.[19][20]

In April 1994 Thayer participated in (and funded) the Cambodian Kouprey Research Project, a $30,000, two-week, 150 km field survey to find the rare Cambodian bovine known as the kouprey.[21] Thayer later wrote: "After compiling a team of expert jungle trackers, scientists, security troops, elephant mahouts and one of the most motley and ridiculous looking groups of armed journalists in recent memory, we marched cluelessly into Khmer Rouge-controlled jungles along the old Ho Chi Minh trail."[22]

On July 3, 1994 Thayer was asked to help negotiate Prince Norodom Chakrapong's release and safe passage to the airport after the prince had been accused by Prime Minister Norodom Ranariddh of plotting a coup d'état.[23][24] Thayer was subsequently expelled from Cambodia by Prince Ranariddh, but he returned anyway.[25]

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Thayer

Washington Post obit:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituari ... -pot-dies/

So it was possibly up to a week or so between dying and being found. I actually do hope Lamont is ok.