Hi Park enthusiasts, I'm your host, Delia DeAmbra, and today our story is taking us to the Mojave Desert.

This dry hot park covers thousands of square miles in California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah in the western United States.

This desert is known to have temperatures that range in the extremes.

One night it could get so cold there's frost on the ground, and then the next day it sky-rockets to blazing hot arid conditions.

At one point it's actually been recorded to have the hottest air and surface temperatures in the world.

In 1972 for instance, a creek basin in Death Valley clocked in at 201 degrees Fahrenheit.

But also during the 1970s and through the 80s a deprived predator from Los Angeles used Mojave to hide his crimes.

To investigate him law enforcement would have to go across the country trying to prove just how many murders he tried to wash away in the desert.

This is Park Predators.

The weekend of July 4th 1984 was as normal as any other for 21 year old Shari Miller.

She was celebrating Independence Day and she had plans to go out after her bartending shift.

She wanted to have a good time and maybe catch a fireworks show, that's what people do on the 4th of July.

At this same time the summer Olympics were in full swing and that only added to the excitement of Shari being out and about in the downtown bars.

Celebrating with friends and having some sense of happiness was really important to Shari at this time because life hadn't been so easy lately.

According to her mom Marilyn, Shari was working odd jobs trying to get by and make a living in Hollywood.

And that summer Shari was actually living out of her car and working as a bar maid at a place called the Meat Market in West LA.

But despite falling on these hard times, Shari was determined. She was going to succeed and she wanted what everyone else around her wanted.

Fame and fortune. It is Los Angeles after all.

And Shari just wanted someone to offer her the right opportunity and maybe she'd make it big.

She was tall, slender, had dark hair and had a really outgoing personality that everyone around her loved.

Right around the weekend of July 4th, Shari drops in for a sporadic visit to her mom's house and she tells her that she met a customer at the Meat Market who offered her a modeling job.

She said she'd struck up a conversation with this guy who said he was a professional photographer and he remarked about how beautiful she was.

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