Hi, Park enthusiasts. I'm your host, Dilya DeAmbra. The case I'm going to tell you about

took place 90 years ago. You heard me right 90 years ago in 1932. But even though it may

be a throwback to a bygone era, the details of this crime have all the makings of a modern

day who done it, a who done it that even after almost a century remains unsolved. The story

takes place in Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba, Canada, a geographical area that's known

for diverse landscape and wildlife that's native to prairie lands, parklands, and forest lands.

In the summer, you can traverse close to 370 kilometers of trails inside the park. And in the

winter, if you have the right gear, you can see it in an entirely different way while hiking roughly

130 kilometers of snow trails. According to travel Manitoba, Riding Mountain is one of five

national parks in Canada that has a resort town site where you can shop, dine, golf, take tours,

you name it. They say the best way to truly take in the beauty of the park, though, is to get out

of town and camp in the depths of the wilderness. In order to make sure people stay safe,

Canada Parks has to employ a lot of staff and game wardens to monitor the crossover of human

activity and animal activity. It's been that way ever since the park opened in 1929 under the name

Riding Mountain Forest Reserve. In 1932, a man named Lawrence Lease was monitoring that careful

balance of nature versus human interaction when a killer hunted him down and shot him to death

in his world cabin. Theories about who pulled the trigger have swirled for nearly 100 years,

and many believe that the truth may reside in just a few scraps of paper ripped from the pages

of the lawman's journal. This is Park Predators.

Around 1015 pm on Wednesday, July 13, 1932, 35-year-old Lawrence Lease and his new wife, 24-year-old

Mertese, were settling in for bed at their cabin and riding mountain national park.

The couple had been newlyweds for six weeks, and after taking their honeymoon in Victoria Beach,

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