Hi, park enthusiasts. I'm your host, Delia Diambra. And the case I'm going to tell you about today

takes place in Joshua Tree National Park in California. It's a story that's been covered across

various true crime television programs and news publications since it happened in 2014.

There's even a book about it by author Shanna Hogan titled Secrets of a Marine's Wife,

A True Story of Marriage, Obsession, and Murder, which I highly recommend you read if you want to dive into this case even further.

That book was an invaluable piece of research material for me and was a resource that Lord Heveland,

the mother of the victim in this story,

asked me to read before covering the case.

And when I tell you guys, it brought me to tears, I'm not exaggerating.

By the end of it, I was unwell.

Laura graciously agreed to do an interview with me for this episode,

despite it being several years since she's discussed the crime with a journalist.

She told me that she never wants her daughter's legacy to be forgotten.

Plus, she's an avid listener of Park Predators.

During our first phone call, she told me that while listening to previous episodes of the show,

she often wondered if I was ever going to cover her daughter's case.

Well, here I am, and this is the official episode

about the life and murder

of 19-year-old Aaron Corwin.

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I'm On the evening of Saturday, June 28, 2014, 21-year-old John Corwin was sitting at his apartment

inside the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center military base in 29 Palms, California, racking his

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