201: The Lava Lake Murders. Deschutes National Forest.

National Park After Dark

Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Places & Travel, Wilderness, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

When three murders occur in the remote wilderness of Deschutes National Forest, a full man hunt is initiated. Investigators would soon realize that it would be much more difficult to capture the perpetrator than they could have ever imagined.

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Resources:
https://www.tillamookheadlightherald.com/community_paid/offbeat-oregon-lava-lake-murders-are-still-officially-unsolved-but/article_0802b80c-6b5d-11e9-b828-9f89bd102737.html
https://www.historicmysteries.com/lava-lake-murders/
https://morethanjustparks.com/deschutes-national-forest/
https://truecrimedetective.co.uk/unsolved-mysteries-slaughter-in-the-wilderness-the-lava-lake-murders-736ad407dc54

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0:00.0	It was the perfect spring day in Deschute's National Forest. It was the start of April. The forests were beginning to come alive.
0:10.0	As the snow melted, animals woke from a restful slumber and the birds chirp loudly in the trees.
0:17.0	From a first glance, everything was right inside the park.
0:21.0	Deers were starting to munch on the new sprouting plants. Foxes, bobcats, and bears were caring for their newborn babies.
0:28.0	Lava Lake was beginning to thaw, offering an exciting new season of recreation on the water.
0:35.6	And today, it had its first visitors of the year.
0:38.9	A group of men lined the ice dragging a boat towards the unfrozen part of the water.
0:44.5	What may have looked like at first glance as spring fishing to an onlooker was in reality
0:50.2	much different.
0:52.2	This was a search party and they were about to emerge three
0:55.8	bodies from the icy water. Welcome to National Park After Dark. Cassie is doing a true crime. We're going back to true crime today. Everyone watch out.
1:28.3	Yeah, well I did a little thing on Instagram where I asked people what do you want to hear from us?
1:33.0	Because we have all these ideas, but I just thought it would be fun to hear what people
1:36.7	really want to hear about.
1:39.4	And I would say the first topic that came up was survival stories. There were so many survival story,
1:44.8	I want to hear a survival story, and then the second top was true crime and I was looking at her schedule and I saw that you have a survival
1:51.2	story coming out next week. So I thought that I would dabble in the true crime
1:55.2	bucket this week and we'd go to survival next week.
1:58.4	Amazing. Well I have been to Deshoots National Forest.
2:03.0	Yeah, so I'm excited to hear this one even though it's probably pretty grim.
2:07.0	But yeah, it's in Oregon, right?
2:09.0	Yes.
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