Hi, park enthusiasts. I'm your host, Dillia Diambra. And the case I'm going to share with you today is one of those stories that I originally planned to incorporate into a previous episode of park predators titled The Pear, because it takes place in the same country, in the same park, with very similar victims. However, after digging into both crimes,

I realized the two stories needed their own standalone episodes.

Stanley Park in British Columbia, Canada,

is a recreation space known for its beauty,

but it's also a place where multiple sets of skeletal remains

and human skulls have been found. And those bones

did not come from indigenous burial grounds known to be in parts of the park. The remains I discussed

in the pair episode were those of David and Derek De Alton, two young boys from Vancouver who were

murdered and left in the park sometime in about 1947. It might be really

helpful to you if before continuing with this episode, you go back and re-listen to that one to get

some background info. Today's case is also about two young boys whose remains were found in the

woods of Stanley Park, but they weren't discovered until decades after the Daalton

brothers. The circumstances of how these two victims ended up in the park, and why, is a rabbit

hole entirely different. And just a quick note, because of how today's episode unfolded in

real time, I'll be jumping back and forth in the timeline a little bit, so bear with me.

But when I tell you that this story is as shrouded in mystery and dark theories, as much as the

Dalton brothers' deaths are, I mean it. In my opinion, what this crime suggests is that for years

something very bad was happening in Stanley Park, or possibly the city of

Vancouver. And what that bad thing is could be related to a single person or a group of people.

I'm still not 100% sure. But I'm convinced a handful of folks possibly still living in British Columbia

could shed more light on the matter.

Which is why today's episode is so important for all my Canadian listeners tuning in to pay particularly close attention to.

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