With Daryl David Rice's death, one chapter of this story had closed.

But the truth, the one sealed inside an envelope of old evidence was only starting to come to light.

For nearly 30 years, the murders of Julie Williams and Lolly Wynens sat in the quiet corners

of evidence rooms.

The case had been tested, dismissed, and retested again, each time circling back to the same

haunting question.

If not him, then who? In 2021, that question landed on a new desk

inside the FBI's Richmond field office. A small team of analysts had reopened the Shenandoah file

under a federal initiative. One designed to give forgotten evidence another chance to speak.

They pulled the original samples, fibers, hairs, biological traces so small they'd once been impossible to read.

This time, the science had changed. The tools were sharper. And for the first time in decades, the evidence had something to say.

In a quiet lab in 2024, a 30-year-old mystery was about to break. On a screen, a strand of DNA pulled from evidence that had been stored for decades

was finally being tested with modern tools. And then, the hit. They've been seeking answers far too

long. What the DNA revealed next would change everything.

This is sequestered season three.

The Shenandoah Park murders.

Episode 5, The DNA Speaks. In May 1996, two women entered Shenandoah National Park with a sense of freedom and endless possibility.

Julie Williams and Laura Lolly Wynens had set out together on a five-day backpacking trip through the mountains with their dog Taj. They'd done this kind of trip a hundred times before.

They knew how to move and exist in those mountains.

May 24th, 1996 was the last day anyone had seen them alive. Days passed beyond their expected return date,

and on June 1st, park officials found them, brutally murdered. For decades, this portrait of violence

was never fully explained. Back in 96, investigators collected and sealed what they could from the scene. Swabs

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