Hi, park enthusiasts. I'm your host, D'Ilya Diambra, and the case I'm going to share with you

today takes place in vastly different geographical areas of the United States. It starts in the

city of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but culminates more than 600 miles away in

North Carolina's Pisca National Forest.

Piscay, in my opinion, as an NC native, is a hiker and outdoor recreationalist paradise. If you like mountains, it's got them. Waterfalls and rivers, it's got those too.

Tons of acreage to roam. Check. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Forest is more than 500,000 acres in size.

And it was actually one of the first tracks of land bought under legislation that was pivotal

in the formation of the National Forest Service in the U.S.

The first school of forestry in the country was established there too.

But as is the case with so many beautiful natural areas I talk about on this show, PISCA National

Forest also has a darker side.

Case in point, it became the end road for one of the most bizarre missing persons investigations

I've ever researched.

And if my instincts are right, you'll likely leave today's episode thinking the exact same thing.

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I'm Shortly after 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 10, 1997, a man named Jeff Smith walked into his hotel room at the double tree in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, expecting to see his wife Judy waiting for him. But she wasn't there. He'd been busy all day attending a pharmaceutical conference,

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