249: Murder of Six. Wells Gray Provincial Park. Part 1.

National Park After Dark

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

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In August of 1982, three generations of one family went on a two week vacation into the mountains of British Columbia. When they failed to return, the community rallied to find them. What began as a missing persons case turned into the grisly discovery of human remains. Exactly what happened to the Bentley and Johnson families was a mystery for months, until the only person left alive involved in the tragedy began to reveal the truth.

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Sources:
Crime Beat: Monster in the Woods. S3 Episode 17, Strange Outdoors, Wild Spaces

Book Recs:

The Seventh Shadow: The Wilderness Manhunt for a Mass Murderer by RCMP SGT Michael Eastham
Murder Times Six: The True Story of the Wells Gray Park Murders

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0:00.0	For millennia, people have feared the forest.
0:05.0	The woods have long since been associated with danger.
0:09.0	It is wild and untamed and can conceal treacherous animals or circumstances.
0:14.4	When night falls, its darkness becomes more profound and exaggerated.
0:18.8	Small sounds become big anxieties, and the woodland, even if viewed as refuge by day by night
0:25.8	can become something else entirely. Our global oral and written histories
0:31.2	contain thousands of stories regarding what lurks in the forest.
0:35.4	From creatures like the Windigo, Ogopogo, and Kuchut Chutuatsku, to spirits and ferries,
0:42.3	all of which retreat to forests to remain hidden.
0:45.6	Creatures, cryptids, and ghouls aside there is another beast that uses the
0:50.6	wilderness as well something that is the most deceitful, dangerous,
0:55.6	and unpredictable of all, humans.
1:01.3	Welcome to National Park After Dark. I feel a true crime episode. It sure is and it's a two-parter.
1:29.6	Ooh, we haven't done a two-parter in a long time.
1:32.6	I know, it was kind of a surprise two-parter because this episode was recommended by a listener
1:39.2	and I found a documentary on it. It was like 45 minutes, watched it,
1:43.6	I'm like, this is great. And then I found a book.
1:46.8	And of course, there's a book.
1:49.0	So I just felt like it was so detailed that it deserved two parts it probably could be
1:55.1	three to be honest but I'll I'll condense it to two so next Monday will be the
2:00.5	conclusion of this story but for now yeah it's part one of a two-parter yeah we're on
2:06.9	video which is yeah hi everyone if you have not heard yet we have created a YouTube channel and we are now
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