Hi, park enthusiasts. I'm your host, Delia Diambra. And the case I'm going to tell you about today

takes place in Bienville National Forest in Mississippi. This recreation space is located in the central

part of the state and is more than 178,000 acres in size. It's about an hour due east of the city

of Jackson, Mississippi, and can be easily accessed

via Interstate 20, which runs east to west across the upper portion of the forest.

Historically, according to Livingnew Deal.org, Bienville National Forest has been known for logging.

Back in the early 1930s, when the U.S. government was eyeing large tracts of land in the southeast

to purchase for the Forest Service, the unveil was selected as a desired property.

The main stakeholders who controlled the woods at that time were lumber companies, so

naturally there were a number of logging trails etched into the landscape as a result of that

industry's foothold in the region.

In March of 1982, something horrific happened on one of those paths that would rock central

Mississippi for decades. Two women, out for a night of fun, found out in the worst way

just how monstrous a young man from their area could be.

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of 52-year-old Velma O'Dell Knoblin and 45-year-old Katie Bell Moore were growing very concerned.

The two friends had gone out earlier that evening to a local bar known as Roberts' drop-in, but it was getting late and they still hadn't returned.

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