Hello, hello everyone, welcome back to National Park after dark.

We have a great episode today because we have a special guest, a super special guest.

I just can't even tell you the full circle moment that just happened to me five minutes ago.

I mean obviously it was cool for Cassie too, but like you know when you just have those people

that you either grew up listening to or hearing or it's just someone that has played an important role

in your life and you're like I would never like they seem like a world away, you know, like they're

not even real. They're not a real person. Yeah. Yeah. Well guess what? It turns out Delia D'Ambra

is a real person and we just talked to her for 45 minutes. We did and Delia D'Ambra is the host

of Park Predators. She's not only the host, but she is the writer and researcher for everything.

And if you haven't listened to Park Predators, which you probably have because I feel like

our whole audience has heard of it, but Park Predators is a national park based podcast as well

and it's actually one of the first podcasts that I ever really listened to as well. So it's cool.

We have a lot of respect for her and the work that she does and she covers a lot of really

important cases, intense, important cases and just after speaking with her, you know, I listened

to her since I think the first episode. I don't know how exactly I heard of it initially, but it

quickly was on my radar, my podcast radar. And I remember listening to it at work at the gym,

you know, before I moved to Washington. And so it was a really cool full circle moment just to be

able to speak to her because she provided a lot of the early inspiration for what this podcast

eventually became. And so of course, we're talking about Park Predators today interviewing Delia.

So to give you a more formal explanation of the podcast, Park Predators. Park Predators is a

hit true crime podcast by host and investigative journalist Delia D'Ambra, which breaks down some

of the most chilling murders at national parks and wild spaces. Thankfully, there are several seasons

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