Hi, Park enthusiasts. I'm your host, Dilya DeAmbra.

And today I'm taking you all the way to Royal National Park in New South Wales, Australia.

A lot of you who listened to this show are in North America, but I wanted to give a special shout-out to all of you listening in Australia.

I get story submissions from you all the time, and today's case is when I received a few months back that I knew I had to dig further into.

According to the New South Wales National Park's website, Royal National Park is the second oldest national park in the world.

It was established in the 1870s, but don't let it's age fool you. This park is still one of the most biodiverse parks in nature.

One minute you can be hiking in rainforests, and the next you can be on a bushwalk, and then to finish off your day you're pulling over into one of the many lookouts that offer breathtaking coastal views.

And when I say these views are lookers, I mean it. They're complete with white sand beaches and picnic areas that are as picturesque as they come.

One of the most popular pull-offs to take in these sites is Governor Game Lookout, and it's located on the southeast edge of the park.

For decades and decades, locals and visitors have driven up there to relax, sightseeing, well-watching, migratory season, or just taking the view.

On a September afternoon in 1975, that's exactly what one man was doing. He pulled in and parked his car while on break from his busy job as a salesman, and was never seen again, or at least not in one piece.

This is park predators.

Shortly after three o'clock on Wednesday, September 17, 1975, a couple named James and Karen Malay drove to Governor Game Lookout in Royal National Park.

They were tourists looking forward to checking out the beautiful vista of Gary Beach, which sat several kilometers below the lookout.

As they parked their car on the side of the road and got out, they noticed a 1974 bronze-colored Ford Fairlane sedan parked in the area, but nobody was inside of it.

Some of the source material says the vacant car was a Ford Falcon sedan, and there is a difference between a fairlane and a Falcon.

The Falcon is much sportier than the Fairlane, and I honestly don't know which model it was, but regardless, James and Karen felt like the vacant sedan seemed odd.

However, in the moment, they weren't too concerned.

They figured whoever drove it was probably walking around nearby somewhere, or maybe the driver had parked it and been picked up by a friend to venture further into the park.

Who knew? But pretty quickly after spotting it, the couple's innocent apathy disappeared.

When James walked closer to the car, he noticed a large pool of blood on the ground next to some bushes right beside it.

I don't think you have to be a Goldstar Park Predators listener to know that a big pool of blood near a vacant car at a fairly remote lookout is a clear red flag that something bad had gone down.

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