Hi Park enthusiasts, I'm your host Delia DeAmbra and today our story takes place in Shenandoah

National Park in Virginia. This park is a huge landmark on the map between West Virginia

and Virginia and a lot of it is designated as official wilderness. Several trail systems

cut through this wilderness though, one of them being 105 miles of the Appalachian Trail.

As you walk through the park you'll see natural rock walls, scenic valleys, beautiful mountains

and rushing rivers. You can see a lot of those same sites from the overlooks along Skyline

Drive. You can drive Skyline for more than 100 miles through Shenandoah and eventually

that road hooks up to the Blue Ridge Parkway, which links up to the Great Smoky Mountains

National Park. And just like Skyline Drive connects so many different places and people

to one another, the 1996 murders of Julie Williams and Laura Winons did the exact same

thing. This is Park Predators.

On May 30th, 1996, Tom and Patsy Williams were enjoying a beautiful summer day at their

home in St. Cloud, Minnesota when their phone rang. On the other end of the line, hundreds

of miles away in Vermont was their daughter Julie's roommate. Now, Tom and Patsy weren't

expecting this call because they knew their 24-year-old daughter wasn't in Vermont. She

left for a backpacking trip with a friend and her friend's dog in Virginia almost two

weeks earlier on May 19th. And this unexpected call was about to turn their world upside

down because Julie's roommate tells Tom that Julie hasn't returned from her trip.

Now, at first, Tom doesn't necessarily think this is the worst thing. Maybe Julie and

her friend just decided to stay an extra day in the park or maybe they had car trouble

on their drive back. Surely there is some explanation. But as they stay on the phone,

Tom and Patsy grow more worried. When Julie's roommate tells them she has a lot of unanswered

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