I believe some elements of that case came from other sources, including an interview Paulides conducted with Dennis Martin's father. I'm not sure where the other family named Martin came from, but I'm wondering if it could have been mentioned somewhere else (a news article? Mr. Martin?). This might be something worth asking Paulides (which I think I may do).
The odd thing about the Special Forces involvement, aside from them showing up, was that they apparently did not communicate with other SAR groups in the area. They seemed to refuse to and maintained radio silence. My understanding is that they were approached but chose not to interact for some reason which really seems counter productive if you want to help SAR find a person.
I haven't checked the reviews in a while, but I know he had some rabid detractors that seemed to have a vendetta rather than a desire to reveal the truth. Not saying that's what you were reading, but it is something to keep in mind. The bigfoot community, which Paulides' is associated with, seems very dramatic (as in they cause drama among themselves) so some of that could be stemming from someone with a different opinion or agenda. I'll have to take a look when I get a moment and see what's been added recently.
Paulides addresses this in multiple interviews. Apparently he submitted FOIA requests but was denied, even to the point of speaking to the NPS special agent (er, whatever their title is, I'm going from memory here 
) and receiving a rather curt and rude response. This occurred in at least one case (Stacy Aras I believe - and I suspect I'm spelling her name incorrectly). He also got in touch with Farabee who said he couldn't understand why the files weren't given to Paulides because he had seen them long ago when he wrote Off the Wall. The attitude Paulides received apparently referenced who he was, I assume meaning his association with the bigfoot community but I don't think he explicitly stated that.
George Knapp also discussed submitting a FOIA request during one of his C2C interviews with Paulides to see if he would receive the same response. Knapp, who I also believe is a genuine guy with no reason to lie, claims that he did. I don't doubt that there are people who will fabricate conspiracy to further a cause or obtain some kind of gain, but I also think it is folly to assume that official documentation and government organizations won't go to great lengths to conceal things that they don't want the public to know about. It's been done before so if something is going on, I'm certain they would do it again.
I am still of the opinion that Paulides sounds genuine. Could he be twisting the facts? Maybe. But I also suspect there may be information that's omitted from publicly available official documents that is found through interviews, original news articles, etc. In fact Paulides stated that he obtained a lot of information from news archives from the time because of trouble obtaining the files (or in some cases, where large quantities of files had been missing or destroyed). He could be a total fraud I suppose, but I'm not seeing that yet. But I'm always curious because these cases intrigue me.
And as as side note, I'm currently working through Off the Wall and it is a really good book. Highly recommend it to anyone who doesn't mind morbid subject matter.
