When a geologist and a wilderness guide went camping in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains,

the last thing anyone expected was for the experienced outdoors women to fail to return.

Their brutal double homicide rocked Shenandoah National Park and sparked a decades-long FBI investigation that has finally concluded.

Julie and Lolley's killer is finally named in this Breaking Case Update episode of Last Seen Alive.

I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime storyteller by night.

And I am your very excited co-host, Scott.

A quick heads up.

This episode contains discussion of sexual assault.

We won't go into any graphic detail, but still, please listen with care.

Scott, it's always a pleasure to learn that one of the cases we've discussed in the past has been solved.

And this case being solved in particular means that not one, but two families have finally received answers

that they've been waiting decades for.

Yeah, when you first told me that we were going to be doing a case update episode on this,

I immediately went and told some of my close friends.

Yeah, I was excited to tell people too, both in real life and via, of course, this episode.

Now, we originally covered Julie and Lolley's

case way back in 2020. It was only our 13th episode, but Julie and Lolley's families have been waiting

much longer than that for answers. They've been waiting since 1996. That's when Julianne Williams and

Laura Wynens, better known as Julie and Lolly, were last seen alive.

It was May of 1996, specifically, when they embarked upon an adventure deep within Virginia's

Blue Ridge Mountains. Julie and Lolley were 24 and 26 years old, respectively, and had traveled

to Virginia all the way from Vermont so that they

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