Hi, Park enthusiasts, I'm your host, Dylia Diambra.

And the case I'm going to tell you about today is a particularly difficult one.

I feel like I can say that about nearly every episode on this show, because it's true.

Each case I cover in-depth has its own unique trauma and lost narrative that's important to process through.

But I don't know why, for whatever reason, this specific

episode just really got to me. It happened 50 years ago on the Appalachian Trail, which is a trail I've

covered now multiple times on this podcast. And I think that's because the AT itself, though beautiful

and for many people a cathartic experience, is just unfortunately a place

that's been home to incidents of violent crime across several decades. I could give you more

interesting facts about it as an outdoor destination, but I won't, because I really think it's

important that we dive head first into the story of this victim, and the human predator who

committed a truly unspeakable crime against her. The story of Janice Balza is one you may be

familiar with, but in this episode I hope to bring a little bit more of who she was to the forefront,

because I think that all too often her memory has been overshadowed by some

of the more shocking aspects of her notorious murder.

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I'm Just after a daybreak on Saturday, April 26, 1975, a man cutting timber near Dennis Cove, Tennessee

stopped what he was doing when he saw a bearded man in his early 50s approach him.

The guy who'd seemingly emerged from the forest out of nowhere looked grisly and a bit worse for

where.

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