When a Pennsylvania couple is brutally attacked in the dead of night, the rural farmhouse becomes a crime scene.

Investigators search for the person responsible for the death of one victim and the near death of another in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

Music Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive.

I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime storyteller by night.

And as always, I'm your co-host Scott, and I must say after that intro, I'm very intrigued.

We don't normally get one where there's an actual survivor of the attack. Yeah, this episode is unusual for that reason. And actually, it's unusual for a lot of

reasons, and we will certainly get into them. But first, a quick heads up, this episode does contain

mention of sexual assault, so please listen with care. Dana Gates was last seen alive on November 30th,

2001. She was 31 years old at the time and lived in Bedford County, Pennsylvania.

If the name of the county sounds familiar to you, that may be because several months ago

we covered another case that partially took place there. That case was the unsolved disappearance

of Fawn Mountain. For those who haven't listened to that episode or could simply use a refresher,

Bedford County is a largely rural county located in the southern part of the state about a two-hour

drive southeast of Pittsburgh and adjacent to the Maryland border. And actually, Scott, this case is

unique to me in that I can say something about it that I've never been able to say about any of the others

we've covered, which is that I lived in the area where it happened, when it happened. Bedford County is one

of the places in Pennsylvania that I lived as a kid, and that's actually where I was living in 2001.

However, I was only a middle school kid at the time, and I don't actually remember any of this

happening.

So imagine my surprise when a listener reached out to tell me about this case.

That's actually pretty unique.

Right. But when I realized that this unsolved case took place in a community I once belonged to, when I belonged to it, and that exceedingly few people outside of that community know

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