Last time on Appalachian Mysteria, investigators at the scene of Julie and Lolli's murder search

a flooded campsite for days where they discover a camera.

After developing the film, they find a photograph of Julie writing in her journal, a journal

that was nowhere to be found at the scene.

The legacy of Rebecca White's murder eight years earlier is still fresh in the minds of

the gay and lesbian communities, and they request that the killings be investigated

as a possible hate crime.

And former NPS agent Tim Alley left us with this.

You know, the only other thing that you haven't brought up that I assume you might

is that it was prior to our case, but still in the same time frame there was other unsolved

homicides in the general area, which came in the play eventually in this case.

You're referring to Ellie's social well-to-renults and the Route 29 stalker?

Yep.

In this episode, the web of violence weaves itself further into central Virginia with the Route

29 stalker and the Lignum murders.

From Chromatic Media and Jamstreet Media, this is Appalachian Mysteria.

March 2nd, 1996, about three months before the murder of Julie and Lolly.

A woman named Alicia Showalter Reynolds disappears from Route 29, a Virginia road that runs parallel

to Shenandoah's Skyline Drive, about 15 miles to the east.

In 1996, Alicia Reynolds was living her dream. At 25, she was married about a year, studying

to get her PhD in pharmacology at Johns Hopkins.

But when Reynolds never showed up for a March 2nd shopping date with her mother, Sadie

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