The Sanctuary

Park Predators

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True Crime

4.5 • 17K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In 2015, when a young man shows up dead in a doorway of a historic church in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, rumors about who stabbed him to death run rampant in communities surrounding Cherokee, North Carolina. The identity of the predators who took his life surprise those closest to the victim and people living on the sacred land they considered to be a sanctuary in its own right.

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0:00.0	Hi Park enthusiasts, I'm your host, Dylia DeAmbra, and the case I'm going to tell you about today
0:06.4	takes place in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A park I've mentioned several times throughout
0:11.7	the first two seasons of this show. Last season I told you about the case of missing father,
0:17.0	Michael Heron, and the mind-boggling disappearance of Trentyn Lynn Gibson.
0:22.0	At this point, there's no doubt that the Smoky Mountains have a lot of wild stories like these,
0:26.8	and I'm pretty sure the reason I keep coming back to this park for episode material is because
0:31.6	it keeps giving it. Every year millions of people visit or camp in the Smoky Mountains,
0:36.7	and it's just a hot spot for stories that fit the bill for this podcast. I mean, I know crime and
0:42.0	murders happen everywhere, but there's definitely something about the Smokies that just tends to draw
0:47.3	a lot of bizarre happenings. Maybe it's just inherent to the landscape, or the fact that the park
0:52.8	borders a couple of states and can be accessed by several major highways. I'm not sure what exactly
0:59.0	it is, but the Smoky's running streak of murders and missing persons' mysteries has stayed strong.
1:05.2	And a crime that happened in March of 2015 is no exception. This story is probably one of the most
1:11.4	violent and strangest crimes I've read about. It took place inside a historic church several
1:17.5	miles inside the boundary of the park and left a 25-year-old man dead on the altar and a disturbing
1:23.8	trail of clues that led authorities to two men who were in the victims' inner circle and were
1:29.2	people he called friends. This is Park Predators.
1:54.2	On Sunday, March 29, 2015, at 2.50 in the morning, a 911 dispatcher at an emergency communication
2:02.1	center for the Cherokee Indian Police Department received a call from a panicked young man.
2:08.1	The caller's voice sounded strained and breathless. He told the dispatcher that he was several
2:13.2	miles inside of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, inside an old historic church, and he wanted
2:18.8	to report that a man had been stabbed and needed medical attention right away. The operator had just
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