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Park Predators

The Unknown

Park Predators

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True Crime

4.415.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

National Park Service ranger Paul Fugate vanishes into the mountains of Chiricahua National Park in Arizona. What was supposed to be a routine patrol hike through the sacred monument grounds turns into one of the largest and longest running missing persons cases in National Park Service history. Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://parkpredators.com/episode-8-the-unknown/

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0:00.0

Hi Park enthusiasts, I'm your host, Dilya DeAmbra.

0:03.9

In this episode is the second of two we decided to give you guys on the same day.

0:08.9

This case and the one you heard before are still both unsolved.

0:12.8

And despite happening in two very different places at two very different times, they have

0:17.5

a lot of similarities.

0:19.5

This episode takes place in the Chiracawa National Parkland in Arizona.

0:24.3

To help me tell the story of what happened to National Park Service Ranger Paul Fugade,

0:29.0

who was working there in January 1980, I enlisted the help of his wife, Doty.

0:34.4

I asked Doty to join me for this episode because her husband's case is the longest-running

0:39.2

missing person's case in the state.

0:41.8

And one of the oldest open cases for a missing staff member in National Park Service history.

0:47.7

After exchanging emails and phone calls for a few weeks, we decided the best way to give

0:52.1

you guys all the information I could was to include Doty's interview in this episode.

0:57.7

Are you ready?

0:59.2

Because this is Park Predators.

1:20.3

On January 14, 1980, Doty Fugade gets a call from the superintendent at Chiracawa National

1:26.6

Monument.

1:27.8

The supervisor tells Doty that her husband Paul was missing from his permanent post at the

1:32.6

park.

1:33.6

And he hadn't been seen since the day before.

1:36.5

He asked her if she'd heard from him and she replied, no.

1:40.0

Paul was on a 10-day stretch of being stationed at the park before he was supposed to return

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