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Locations Unknown

Murder on the Appalachian Trail - Part 1

Locations Unknown

Unknown Media Group

Places & Travel, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6756 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Sept 13th, 1990 - Biff and Cindi Bowen were at the halfway point of their 2,144 mile hike down the Appalachian Trail, when the couple stopped for supplies in Duncannon, Pennsylvania, before their trek up nearby Cove Mountain.  The two planned to spend the night in a three-sided log shelter along the trail.  As the couple hiked down an incline behind the shelter, Biff sensed that “Something was wrong,”.  He was so overcome with an uneasy sense of dread that he positioned his hiking pole as a weapon before walking around the cabins open side.  On the open side of the cabin, the couple found supplies frantically scattered around the murdered bodies of two hikers. The Bowens walked onto the scene of a grisly double murder.  The victims, two experienced hikers—Molly LaRue, 25, of Shaker Heights, Ohio, and her boyfriend, Geoffrey Hood, 26, of Signal Mountain, Tennessee.  Hood had been shot multiple times with a .22 caliber revolver.  LaRue had been tied up, tortured, raped and stabbed eight times in the neck and upper back.  Join us this week as we investigate the case of Hood and LaRue. Join us in Episode 17 for part 2 of "Murder on the Appalachian Trail", where we wrap up the case of Hood & LaRue. Learn about other unsolved missing persons cases in America's wilderness at Locations Unknown. Follow us on Facebook & Instagram. Become a Patron of the Locations Unknown Podcast by visiting our Patreon page.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Thousands of people have mysteriously vanished in America's wilderness.

0:12.0

Join us as we dive into the deep end of the unexplainable and try to piece together what happened.

0:19.0

You are listening to locations unknown.

0:21.6

You are listening to locations unknown. What's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of Locations Unknown.

0:53.8

I'm your co-host, Joe Irato, and with me as always is a guy who's so not basic, his

0:59.2

pH is near zero, Mike Van de Bogart.

1:02.5

It's a pretty technical intro there, Joe.

1:05.3

Only some people will get it.

1:08.1

Not a lot of updates this time around, but I do want to urge people who want to help the show out to visit our Facebook page where we have a store there that sells a lot of really cool swag for the trail, some hats, bumper stickers.

1:19.8

So help us out and purchase one and know that you're supporting the show.

1:25.1

I'm actually looking into getting some patches.

1:28.5

Ah.

1:29.4

Backpacks.

1:30.1

That'd be pretty cool.

1:30.9

Yeah.

1:31.3

Yeah.

1:31.7

Anything backpack, if you want to put it on a hat, something, so we'll see.

1:36.0

I'll buy one of those.

1:39.0

Mike, you can just have one.

1:40.6

Okay, thank you.

1:43.7

This week's show sponsored by Verger, CBD products.

1:47.2

They've been sponsoring us for a while now.

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