What is going on true crime fans? I'm your host Heath and I'm your host Daphne.

And you're listening to Going West. Hello everybody.

Thank you for tuning in. So over on our bonus episode series, it's called Real Crime, which, by the way, has almost 150 full-length ad-free bonus episodes of cases that we have not covered on Going West.

We mostly like to cover solved cases because we really want to utilize our larger platform on Going West. We mostly like to cover solved cases because we really want to utilize our larger

platform on Going West to highlight cases that need more eyes. But we were fully ready to use today's

case for a bonus episode because it takes place in Canada. And we also do a lot of international

cases over on our Patreon, Apple podcast, bonus series.

But after diving into this one, we knew we had to cover it here because this story needs

way more attention.

And it is freaking wild.

Yeah, it's crazy just the details and how close I feel like investigators really are. Like,

there is kind of a suspect that a lot of people are pointing at. Oh, and we're going to dive into

him so much because, like, that's honestly one of the craziest elements of this case is who this

suspect is and why Heath and I fully believe that he's responsible.

And why he's been free for this long.

It's truly crazy. So without further ado, let's just dive right in.

All right, guys, this is episode 532 of going west.

So let's get into it. In August of 1989, in August of 1989, a 26-year-old man in Prince George, British Columbia was given an unexpected

lifeline when a bearded stranger at a pub offered him and his partner short-term work at a logging

ranch nearby.

With two young children, desperation for employment outweighed caution,

because later that night, a witness saw the family pack their belongings and step into the

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