Hi, Park enthusiasts. I'm your host, Dilya DeAmbra, and today our story takes place all

the way in Montana and Glacier National Park. Now this park is huge and it's home to

more than a million acres of glacier-carved mountains and valleys. Its boundary is so

big the park includes land in the western United States of Montana and it reaches all

the way into Canada. Now as you probably guessed, it's best known for, well, it's glaciers.

These huge, slow-moving chunks of ice have shaped the land for more than 7,000 years. Decades

after decades and centuries after centuries and it's at one point in time in July 1983

that an unnamed man whose body was found at the bottom of a glacier's cliff would become

a mystery that intrigued law enforcement and would lead them to a predator whose crimes

stretch from Canada to Mexico over the span of three decades. This is Park Predators.

On July 14, 1983, a woman in Shusha, New York named Anne got a phone call and this

conversation would change her and her family's life. On the other end of that line was a park

ranger and is from Glacier National Park in Montana. This ranger asks Anne if she has a

1968 Volkswagen van registered in her name. Now Anne wondering what this out of the

blue call is all about answers the ranger saying yes, her and her brother Frederick Pongres

are both registered as the owners of the van but she tells the ranger that her brother

is the one using it. He recently set off on a cross country trip to Washington state. Then

there's a pause on the other end of the line and that's when Anne learns the worst possible news.

The ranger tells her that her brother is dead and his van is missing. He says that visitors who

were sightseeing in an area called Crystal Point in Glacier National Park had found Fred's body

at the bottom of a cliff. These tourists had been taking pictures on the overlooks edge when they

looked down and made the gruesome discovery. Authorities believed that Fred was found so quickly because

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