Bigfoottracker.com was created on June 16th, 2008 by Rick Dyer and Matt Whitton. According to Dyer, Bigfoottracker.com was created to spoof the Bigfoot community, while at the same time to drum up business for their own Bigfoot expeditions after getting the idea, seeing the BFRO website. They purposely attacked Cryptomundo.com's Loren Coleman, and the BFRO to gain attention to boost website attention. They began with a series of Youtube videos mocking the Bigfoot community and boasting they were the best.

                      


Mark Whitton was a police officer with the Clayton County (Georgia) Police Department. Whitton was subsequently
shot in the line of duty, while attempting to apprehend an alleged armed robbery suspect on July 3rd, 2008.  After the
debacle, Whitton was dismissed from his position with the Clayton County PD.



                                                
                                               
                                                 Rick Dyer was the other hoaxer in the scheme,  former Tank Battalion Army, given a
                                                 a general discharge after 3 years of service, able to re-enlist. Dyer worked as a corrections
                                                 officer and security guard. He ventured to run a car sales business which he currently
                                                 runs out of his home.



Shortly after Whitton was shot, on July 9th, 2008 they made the first claim of obtaining a Bigfoot body, allegedly shot by a person interviewed by Dyer the previous month.

Bigfoottracker's First claim of having a body.
 

After seeing the controversy stirring up in the Bigfoot Community, and the exposure of  Matt Whitton's brother
posing as an anthropologist, it became very clear to me that a hoax was at play. I issued a challenge to Whitton
and Dyer via Youtube, the only available avenue that seemed to get their attention daily after I issued the challenge on
Friday July, 25th 2008 via email, and on the morning of the show issued a second challenge.

July 28th, 2008 Challenge To Bigfoottracker.coom
 

That led to a two hour phone call. There was one point where I thought I had broken Dyer, but after a brief pause he resumed his claims of having a Bigfoot Body. He then inquired as to whom Tom Biscardi was. Biscardi had left messages with him the previous week, (finding this out in Feb. 2009). I called Biscardi and introduced them via conference call. Biscardi claimed he would "get to the bottom of it."

That night Rick Dyer appeared on Squatchdetective Radio, of July 28th, 2008.


Click to listen to broadcast of July 28th, 2008


It was shortly thereafter that the wheels started spinning which would start the road to many lies, and the absolute exposure of a hoaxer. It also drew out everyone in the "Bigfoot Community". The crazies, one whom faxed the White House, to conspiracy theorists who stated the government was getting ready to seize the body and people that were frightened of being undercut before their Bigfoot body was made public. And this was all before the sensational press conference Biscardi had fashioned for Friday, August 15th, 2008.

Truly it was interesting times. It was apparent that the community was definitely not prepared for a body, either real or fake.