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he had already been evacuated  when the flash floof hit . at the request of the park servive he spent one additional night at the lodge at the north rim while he was being interviewed about jaana'a disappearance . he checked out of his room at almost the precise time that he thunderstorm was parked over the bright angel creck drainage . he drove back to las vegas in  a mustangf convertible .
the contemporaneous follow up accounts contained no additional information about nick paulson . merideth 's files showed no indication he had been interviewed by the press or by park service  personnel after he returned to las vegas . one of merideth's researchs tried to track down his current whereabouts . the researchers identified three possibilities , based on paulson's age at the time of jaana's disappearce . the aAP news reports had pegged him as twenty-two at the time .
one nicholas paulson was in boise , idoho . he worked as a laborer for an oil comapny , one was literally a rocket scientist - he was employed by NASA  , and  he was living in huntville , alabama . the third was living in las vegas , where  he was employed by a well known resort development firm .