The Lava Lake Murders: Deschutes National Forest

National Park After Dark

Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian

True Crime, Places & Travel, History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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When three murders occur in the remote wilderness of Deschutes National Forest, a manhunt is initiated. Investigators would soon realize that it would be much more difficult to capture the perpetrator than they could have ever imagined.Danielle is on Cameo! Head over there for personalized messages, recommendations, and more! For the latest NPAD updates, group travel details, merch and more, follow us on npadpodcast.com and our socials:Instagram: @‌nationalparkafterdarkTikTok: @‌nationalparkafterdarkSupport the show by becoming an Outsider and receive ad free listening, bonus content and more on Patreon or Apple Podcasts. Want to see our faces? Catch full episodes on our YouTube Page!Thank you to this week’s partners!IQBAR: Text PARK to 64000 to get 20% off all IQBAR products and free shipping.Heart Starts Pounding: check out Heart Starts Pounding wherever you get your podcasts.Rocket Money: Use our link to get started saving. For a full list of our sources, visit http://npadpodcast.com/episodes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It was the perfect spring day in Deschute's National Forest. It was the start of April. The forests were beginning to come alive.
0:10.0	As the snow melted, animals woke from a restful slumber and the birds chirp loudly in the trees.
0:17.0	From a first glance, everything was right inside the park.
0:21.0	Deers were starting to munch on the new sprouting plants. Foxes, bobcats, and bears were caring for their newborn babies.
0:28.0	Lava Lake was beginning to thaw, offering an exciting new season of recreation on the water.
0:35.6	And today, it had its first visitors of the year.
0:38.9	A group of men lined the ice dragging a boat towards the unfrozen part of the water.
0:44.5	What may have looked like at first glance as spring fishing to an onlooker was in reality
0:50.2	much different.
0:52.2	This was a search party and they were about to emerge three
0:55.8	bodies from the icy water. Welcome to National Park After Dark. Cassie is doing a true crime. We're going back to true crime today. Everyone watch out.
1:28.3	Yeah, well I did a little thing on Instagram where I asked people what do you want to hear from us?
1:33.0	Because we have all these ideas, but I just thought it would be fun to hear what people
1:36.7	really want to hear about.
1:39.4	And I would say the first topic that came up was survival stories. There were so many survival story,
1:44.8	I want to hear a survival story, and then the second top was true crime and I was looking at her schedule and I saw that you have a survival
1:51.2	story coming out next week. So I thought that I would dabble in the true crime
1:55.2	bucket this week and we'd go to survival next week.
1:58.4	Amazing. Well I have been to Deshoots National Forest.
2:03.0	Yeah, so I'm excited to hear this one even though it's probably pretty grim.
2:07.0	But yeah, it's in Oregon, right?
2:09.0	Yes.
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