Hi, park enthusiasts. I'm your host, D'Lia Diambra. And the story I'm going to tell you today is one of the

most baffling and haunting mysteries of Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee. It's a case that's

been on my list since I started this show five years ago, but for some reason I just never felt

quite ready to tell it. However, now that I'm a

mother of a little boy who we often take with us to plenty of national and state parks,

I realized this new perspective is what finally made me feel prepared to handle this case with care.

And I think to the best of my ability, I have. The missing person case of six-year-old

Dennis Martin in June of 1969 is a complicated one. For starters, it happened 56 years ago,

and at the time involved multiple law enforcement agencies kind of all doing their own thing.

It's documented as being the largest and most

intensive search ever conducted in the park's history. And as the decades have passed, it remains a

behemoth of a case that continuously draws headlines. There have been several books and TV

programs produced about it, and when I say there's also a wide variety of

theories as to what happened, I mean wide, even venturing into paranormal territory. What I hope

you take away from this episode, though, is this. Dennis Martin is still out there, somewhere,

maybe in the park, maybe not.

And until he has finally found, we should all care deeply about the impact his case had on his

loved ones, many of whom are no longer alive, as well as countless other outdoor enthusiasts,

who I know often find themselves asking the same question I do when I'm out in nature.

What if my child disappears? This is Park Predators.

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