268: Madness in McCarthy. Wrangell St. Elias National Park. Part 2.

National Park After Dark

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

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Today we follow Elishaba and Jerusalem’s escape through the unforgiving terrain of Wrangell - St. Elias National Park. With their father right on their tail and temperatures dropping far into the negatives, they’re in a fight for survival.

*Trigger Warning: This episode contains domestic and sexual abuse.*

Resources:
Book: Out of the Wilderness Escaping My Father’s Prison and My journey to Forgiveness by Elishaba Doerkson.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. Welcome back to National Park After Dark.
0:22.2	We are here for our part two from last week.
0:25.6	Yeah, so if you are not familiar with our podcast, hello and welcome.
0:30.6	This is the wrong episode to begin.
0:32.4	But we're happy you're here.
0:33.7	Yeah, thanks for coming.
0:35.0	But you should scoot back an episode to part one of, I don't even know what you're
0:42.2	titling this.
0:43.2	So, sorry.
0:45.0	Rangel St. Elias, something.
0:46.5	Yeah.
0:47.3	Madness in McCarthy, Rangel St. Elias.
0:49.5	Part one is the episode before this one.
0:52.4	But thank you for joining us.
0:53.3	We're new.
0:53.8	I'm Cassie.
0:55.0	And I'm Danielle. And we have, this is also a pretty sad story to start off with too, but it is
1:01.4	very, very interesting. It does happen in Wrinkle St. Elias up in Alaska. And a lot of stuff
1:08.1	goes down. And I will say that this is one of those episodes where I
1:11.9	researched two books for. And I'm trying to do it justice with the podcast. And I'm definitely
1:17.1	putting in a lot of the main points. But this is definitely a story where you should read the books.
1:22.7	And I'll go into those a little bit more. But before we jump into this episode, I do want to just do a little
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