It was in the Jemez. A guy called the “Cookie Bandit” for breaking into homes and stealing food, managed to go unseen for 6 years there before two local sheriff’s deputies staked out a cabin. He killed one of them before being shot and killed. The gun he had taken from a hiker that had vanished years before, and he was later connected to two murders in California in the 70’s. You can get lost there, and stay lost.
the Maine Hermit has him beat by a long-shot - 27 years in the woods before being caught. and Maine isn’t nearly as rugged as the northern Rockies or nnmapped areas of California
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxBT5nuWwIU