81 - Unfinished Business. Crater Lake National Park.

National Park After Dark

Audioboom Studios

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

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Alice Simms always knew her grandfather Albert was murdered. For most of her life, she didn’t know much about him, his life or death. Her mother never talked much about him, and Alice never wanted to ask – afraid she may open a painful wound. But after her mother died, Alice believes she came back to her from beyond the veil – and encouraged her to finish what she had begun, to find who killed Albert Jones. Today we visit Crater Lake National Park, the location of the biggest unsolved mysteries in the Pacific Northwest – the murders of Albert Jones and Charles Culhane.

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Sources: Alta, Crater Lake Institute, NPS, Herald and News, The Atlantic , KTEC

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0:00.0	If you have ever lost someone that you love, you are familiar with platitudes.
0:08.4	Remarks that are given to you with all of the best intentions and attempt to make you
0:12.6	feel better, but more often than not, these words usually miss the mark.
0:19.3	These phrases can great against an already raw and open wound.
0:23.9	Anyone who has experienced grief knows all too well, it is paradoxical.
0:29.7	It is feeling hollow while feeling heavy.
0:32.9	It is being numb while searing with pain.
0:36.4	It is conjuring flames with anger and extinguishing them with your tears.
0:42.3	Grief is drowning.
0:44.7	But between the waves, while gasping for air, sometimes we receive momentary relief.
0:51.6	This relief can and does come in a myriad of ways, shapes and forms.
0:56.3	And depending on who you are, you may feel relief in a way someone else wouldn't.
1:01.3	But I can almost guarantee, this relief does not come from well intentioned platitudes.
1:08.0	It comes from cooking their favorite meal, creating a memorial, blasting their favorite
1:13.1	song, giving to a charity they supported.
1:17.3	Working through grief often shows itself in continuing to live your life in the way that
1:21.9	your loved one would.
1:23.6	Sometimes our loved ones show us exactly what they want us to do.
1:29.0	And sometimes, just sometimes, it involves solving a murder.
1:36.4	Welcome to National Park after dark.
1:59.3	I was not sure what direction that intro was taking us.
2:02.9	And I feel like I just got whipped around to a murder story.
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