Park Predators

Park Predators

Explore the dark side of the world’s most beautiful places with investigative journalist and park enthusiast Delia D’Ambra. Each week, Delia guides you deep into national parks and forests across the globe, uncovering stories where nature’s breathtaking beauty has masked sinister secrets. From infamous cases that made headlines to little-known crimes that still need answers, Delia’s relentless pursuit of the truth takes her through archives and remote landscapes to reveal the hidden darkness haunting these natural wonders. Because sometimes, the most beautiful places hide the darkest secrets. This is Park Predators.

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December 9, 2025 31 mins

When two beloved mothers vanish after a night out, their families quickly grow concerned. Within hours of their vehicle being spotted near a Mississippi national forest, a violent young man is apprehended but the case would never fully come to an end for several more decades.

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When a burning car is found in Prentice Cooper State Forest in February 2020 with a body inside, law enforcement is quick to zero in on two suspects who were people the victim trusted as friends.

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November 25, 2025 43 mins

In 1960, three housewives from Chicago never make it out of Starved Rock State Park alive and police in Illinois quickly realize a piece of nature itself might be the murder weapon. The investigation zeros in on a predator who was hiding in plain sight. In recent years, his guilt has come into question and new evidence emerged that only deepened this enduring mystery.

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November 18, 2025 30 mins

When a night-time drive into a national park in Georgia turns into the brutal scene of a stabbing, the FBI is quick to identify their prime suspects. When all is said and done, the truth of who really murdered Anthony Lee Miller in April 1991 remains a matter of whose story you believe.

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November 13, 2025 33 mins

Today we are bringing you stories from a slightly different side of true crime: stories about people who live by deception. Individuals who don't just tell lies but become someone else entirely. 

From Audiochuck and Campside Media, this is Chameleon. Each week, host and journalist Josh Dean unravels a new case that pushes the limits of human deception. Stories of imposters, shapeshifters, and master con artists who have turned illus...

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November 11, 2025 35 mins

In April 1995, two troubled teens on the run from the law in Payette National Forest encounter an innocent forest service worker and commit the unthinkable.

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November 4, 2025 34 mins

Five so-called friends go camping together in the Trinity Alps in California, but only four return. 

The 1998 slaying of Lora Sinner is a case that made headlines for years because of its brutality, but in this episode, Delia explores more about the sweet young woman whose life was ripped away from her and the web of bad decisions amongst a group of young people that led to cold-blooded murder.

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October 28, 2025 28 mins

An abandoned campsite, a crashed car, and a trail of ominous clues. What really happened to Sandra Johnsen Hughes in the summer of 2020 in Sierra National Forest and Yosemite National Park? That’s the enduring question Madera County Sheriff’s Office needs help answering.

  • The investigating agency for the disappearance of Sandra Lynn Johnsen Hughes is the Madera County Sheriff's Office. They can be reached at 559-675-7770.
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October 21, 2025 41 mins

When a 38-year-old waitress vanished on a weekend trip to Mount Rushmore in August 2013, red flags went up right away for her friends and family. But the road to justice for her case would take many winding turns until finally it ended with a long-awaited conviction.

  • Find Nancy Herman's Facebook page, Help Find Meshell's Murderer, here
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October 14, 2025 37 mins

When a husband and wife from New Hampshire vanish on the beach of Padre Island National Seashore in 2019, all the red flags go up about the vibrant couple’s disappearance. Then, concerning clues begin to emerge that lead investigators to a violent predator bound by love to an accomplice.

  • You can find the Facebook page honoring the memory of James and Michelle Butler here.

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September 30, 2025 25 mins

When a Central California businessman vanishes while on a fishing trip in Kings Canyon National Park with friends, few clues emerge as to what happened. When his background reveals a substantial windfall decades earlier in his life, the mystery only deepens.

  • NAMUS: The investigating agency for the disappearance of Fred Gist in August 1975 is the National Park Service in Sequoia and Kings Canyon. They can be reached at 559-565-42...
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September 23, 2025 38 mins

When two soon-to-be newlyweds are found dead on a scenic Northern California beach, the mystery as to why they were killed and by whom is baffling. But when a familiar name to authorities resurfaces, the truth of what happened at Fish Head Beach finally unravels.

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September 16, 2025 40 mins

Two young people are found brutally shot to death on a remote Canadian beach in 1972, and one man quickly becomes the center of the investigation. However, he manages to elude capture for nearly 40 years and leaves a wake of devastation and other violent crimes in his path. 

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September 9, 2025 42 mins

When a young woman witnesses the cold-blooded execution of her hiking companion on the Appalachian Trail and lives to tell the tale, her chilling story is almost too much for law enforcement in 1974 to believe. Then, as the pieces start to come together, police are faced with a human predator whose criminal career is the stuff of nightmares.

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September 2, 2025 46 mins

On a quiet mountain in eastern Tennessee, three men ride off on all-terrain vehicles for an evening of exploring, fishing, and swimming but never return. When foul play is revealed, what seemed like a straightforward murder mystery turns into a bizarre puzzle that local law enforcement spend nearly a decade trying to untangle. This is the story of the July 1988 Signal Mountain murders.

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August 26, 2025 41 mins

When a celebrated Colorado musician disappears in February 2020, law enforcement quickly connects dots between him and a gruesome discovery in Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests. The web of violence that surrounds the victim and a woman he was planning to meet unveils a dangerous third party who carried out the unimaginable.

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August 19, 2025 31 mins

When two bodies are discovered in the sand dunes of Indiana Dunes National Park, it doesn’t take authorities long to identify the victims as young people who’ve been missing for nearly a week. In a matter of days the mystery of their murders unravels, but the killer is someone who was right in front of investigators all along.

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August 12, 2025 27 mins

Harold Henthorn loses his first wife in a tragic car accident on the side of a rural mountain road, then his second wife falls off a cliff in Rocky Mountain National Park. Authorities in Colorado feel something is terribly wrong, and a closer look at Henthorn’s past reveals disturbing clues as to how his wives met their deadly fates.

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August 5, 2025 29 mins

When a mother of three suffers a horrific attack at the hands of her partner while on a family camping trip, her sons witness the unfathomable, and law enforcement is determined to find justice for the victim.

  • If you or a loved one is experiencing domestic abuse of any kind, you are not alone. You can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233 or text START to 88788 for help.
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July 29, 2025 42 mins

In 1969, when a young boy vanished in a matter of minutes in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, his case set off a series of events that forever changed the way search and rescue operations in the United States and around the world are conducted. The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Dennis Martin is as baffling today as it was all those decades ago.

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