When I read this story this morning, I smelled a rat. I think this gal wanted to die.
She didn't want it to look like suicide so she set it up to look like she was just lost in the woods and died by the cruelties of nature.

I think she committed suicide. Probably took a dozen Vicodin and two glasses of red wine, and laid down and never woke up. As far back in the woods as she was, she knew they could never do forensic testing to find the dope or booze.
I feel sorry for the guys who found her rotten skeleton, that is one image they will never get out of their minds.