Hi, Park enthusiasts. I'm your host, Dilya DeAmbra. And today I'm going to tell you two stories,

both of which are bewildering mysteries that still haunt the families of two young boys

and remain on the minds of police investigators.

The disappearances of David Gonzales and Samuel Bulkey, sometimes pronounced Bailkey, are not

formally connected, mostly because they happened two years apart in two very different places.

But I think it's important you hear their stories together because to be honest,

they're chilling reminders of just how quickly a child can be in one place one moment

and then seemingly gone the next. And there's no place that's truer than in a national park or

national forest. David vanished from San Bernardino National Forest, which sits about an hour and a

half east of Los Angeles, California. According to the U.S. Forest Service, the area has hundreds

of miles of hiking trails, seven designated wilderness areas, and 42 campgrounds, many of which

are praised as being family friendly. Samuel disappeared in the blink of an eye while out

walking with his father in Crater Lake National Park, somewhere in the breathtaking snowy terrain

surrounding America's deepest lake, the truth of where Samuel went or maybe still is, has

eluded Oregon law enforcement for 17 years. Both boys deserve more than a label of lost or missing.

They deserve to have resolution to their cases or be brought home. This is Park Predators.

Around 8 o'clock in the morning on Saturday, July 31, 2004, Jose and Rosinda Gonzalez woke up at their

campsite inside Hannah Flat family campground in San Bernardino National Forest. The temperature

outside was cool, but the couple could tell the day was going to heat up fast. Rosinda told her husband

the family needed water and volunteered to go to a nearby spigot to fill a jug. Around that same

time, the couple's nine-year-old son David asked his parents if he could go to their truck to get some

cookies they'd left locked inside, which can we just pause for a second here and say how amazingly

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