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SEQUESTERED Podcast

The Shenandoah Park Murders | Episode 3: The Pattern Begins

SEQUESTERED Podcast

Road Trip Studios

True Crime, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.1802 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

One year after the murders of Julie Williams and Lollie Winans, a cyclist named Yvonne Malbasha was attacked on Skyline Drive inside Shenandoah National Park.

Her escape set off a chain of events that would expose a pattern of rage and violence that would lead investigators straight to Darrell David Rice, a 29 year old from Maryland whose hatred toward women and the LGBTQ+ community would soon become central to a federal murder case.

Episode Three captures the moment the investigation shifted from unanswered questions to a name investigators couldn't ignore. A survivor's escape would spark a chain of revelations that redefined the case.

Read full source notes, photos, and case materials at SequesteredPod.com.

Featuring original music by Andrew Golden // Listen to "Shenandoah" here!

Transcript

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0:00.0

In the last episode, we followed Julie Williams and Lolly Wynens into the backcountry.

0:13.2

Two women who went to Shenandoah searching for quiet and found something unimaginable.

0:19.9

Their deaths left a wound in the park

0:21.9

and a question no one could answer.

0:25.4

Who would do something like this?

0:28.2

A year later, almost to the month,

0:30.7

another woman was making her way through those same mountains.

0:34.3

A cyclist, strong, experienced, and alone on Skyline Drive. What happened next would

0:42.2

send rangers running and set off alarm bells inside the FBI, because when they caught the

0:48.9

man responsible for her attack, they realized he wasn't a stranger to Shenandoah. He'd been there before.

0:57.0

This is sequestered season three, the Shenandoah Park murders. Episode 3, the Skyline

1:04.0

Drive attack.

1:27.3

Okay. It had been just over a year since Julie Williams and Lolly Wynens were found murdered in Shenandoah National Park. For Rangers and for the FBI,

1:31.5

the case still hung like a shadow over the Blue Ridge, unsolved, unhealed. On July 9, 1997, another woman

1:42.2

was moving through those same mountains. Her name was Yvonne Malbasha. She was an endurance

1:48.7

athlete, strong, focused, a lifelong competitor. In 97, she was 40 years old, a mother and a wife

1:58.9

from Nipian, Ontario.

2:05.3

Three years prior, in a 1994 profile for the Ottawa citizen,

2:11.3

reporter Leonard Stern described Yvonne as both secretive and self-mocking,

2:16.6

the kind of competitor who could laugh at the absurdity of what she put her body through.

2:22.8

In October of 94, Yvonne competed in the double Ironman in Huntsville, Alabama,

2:30.2

an eight and a half kilometer swim, a 380 kilometer bike ride, and an 84 kilometer run,

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