Park Predators

Park Predators

Explore the dark side of the world’s most beautiful places with investigative journalist and park enthusiast Delia D’Ambra. Each week, Delia guides you deep into national parks and forests across the globe, uncovering stories where nature’s breathtaking beauty has masked sinister secrets. From infamous cases that made headlines to little-known crimes that still need answers, Delia’s relentless pursuit of the truth takes her through archives and remote landscapes to reveal the hidden darkness haunting these natural wonders. Because sometimes, the most beautiful places hide the darkest secrets. This is Park Predators.

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April 22, 2025 36 mins

When three fur trappers in Oregon disappeared from their rural outpost in 1924, their family members sounded the alarm about a bizarre scene left in the snow. Authorities launched an investigation that was months behind a killer and found themselves hunting a career criminal who may have pulled off the greatest caper of his life.

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When a 21-year-old woman’s lifeless body is found in a popular Toronto neighborhood park, authorities are hard-pressed to find her killer. A mysterious shoeprint becomes a key clue for investigators, but somehow the suspect eludes their grasp.

  • If you know anything about the murder of Margaret McWilliam on August 27th, 1987, please contact the Toronto Police Service homicide division at 416-808-7400, or at homicide@torontopoli...
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April 8, 2025 49 mins

When a couple is viciously murdered in a shelter on the Appalachian Trail in 1981, their killer is caught…However, two best friends on a fishing and camping trip more than 20 years later discover in the worst possible way that he returned to a familiar hunting ground.

View source material and photos for this episode at: parkpredators.com/the-loner


 

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April 1, 2025 40 mins

When two women vanish from the same Texas city in the summer of 2006, little attention is focused on their cases. But when a federal probe puts the city’s police department and one officer in particular under the microscope, everyone’s attention shifts. When human remains start showing up in nearby Angelina National Forest, even more questions arise.

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March 25, 2025 33 mins

When five teens visit a remote Iowa preserve but only one leaves alive, authorities are determined to catch three killers who have seemingly gotten away with a brutal crime. 

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March 18, 2025 39 mins

When a 15-year-old girl vanishes while riding her bike near Indiana Dunes National Park in August 1995, it’s all hands on deck to find her. However, just like the ever-shifting landscape beneath law enforcement’s feet, an elusive predator blends into an alarming wave of violence in northern Indiana and northeast Illinois during the summer of 1995.

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March 11, 2025 31 mins

When a trio of men enter Cherokee National Forest but only two come out, law enforcement works fast to figure out what exactly happened that left so much bloodshed on the riverbanks.

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March 4, 2025 39 mins

When two well-known fishermen are gunned down in a secluded state park in Florida, authorities are stumped for clues, but then a theory emerges that leads them to yet another victim of foul play in the same tight-knit fishing community.

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February 25, 2025 28 mins

When a man vanishes on Christmas Day in 2015, his family’s alarm bells go off, and authorities launch an investigation that reveals a web of violence and a grisly scene in Cherokee National Forest. 

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February 11, 2025 32 mins

When a beloved wife, mother, and grandmother sets out on a life-long dream to conquer the Appalachian Trail, her plans abruptly change. The mystery of what happened to her reveals a harrowing series of events that remain puzzling to those closest to her.

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February 4, 2025 34 mins

When a 4-year-old girl vanishes from a family picnic in a popular Montana recreation space, authorities stop at nothing to try and find her. Then, years into the investigation, law enforcement gets the break they’ve been waiting for. Someone takes credit for the abduction.

  • If you have any information regarding the abduction of Nyleen Marshall please contact the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office at (406) 225-4075 or visit thei...
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January 28, 2025 28 mins

When a Navy veteran and recent transplant to Oklahoma is found stabbed to death at a popular fishing spot, authorities are quick to investigate a mysterious angler seen fleeing the crime scene. What their investigation revealed was not what anyone expected.

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January 21, 2025 30 mins

When an investment banking analyst is stabbed to death on a fall morning along a popular hiking trail in Wisconsin, his murderer seemingly slips out of sight despite multiple eyewitnesses seeing him. To-date the killer remains at-large and authorities need your help.

Less than a year later, another family suffers a similar loss when an avid photographer and newly-wed is gunned down by a sniper while hiking outside of one of the busi...

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    January 14, 2025 51 mins

    When a young British photojournalist vanishes in a well-known Kenyan reserve, questions swirl around what happened to her. After her remains are found at a grisly crime scene, her father sets out on a decades-long hunt to bring her killer to justice but is faced with bizarre roadblocks from two nations on different continents.

    View source material and photos for this episode at: parkpredators.com/the-reserve

     

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    January 7, 2025 31 mins

    When a husband and wife are gunned down at their campsite in Ouachita National Forest, the hunt for their killer leads authorities to a man with a peculiar collection of homemade hunting gear. 

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    December 31, 2024 28 mins

    When a beautiful co-ed is brutally murdered on a popular hiking trail in Prescott National Forest in the summer of 1987, authorities are stumped on who the killer could be. The investigation drags on for decades until finally advances in DNA technology link a serial predator to multiple cases of sexual assault and murder. This is the second of two episodes covering the murder of Cathy Sposito and the identification of Bryan Scott B...

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    December 31, 2024 32 mins

    When a beautiful co-ed is brutally murdered on a popular hiking trail in Prescott National Forest in the summer of 1987, authorities are stumped on who the killer could be. The investigation drags on for decades until finally something breaks. This is the first of two episodes covering the murder of Cathy Sposito.

    View source material and photos for this episode at: parkpredators.com/the-afterlife-part-1

     

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    December 17, 2024 30 mins

    When a young girl vanishes from an upstate New York state park authorities assemble a massive search for her. After an ominous note shows up in her family’s mailbox, the hunt for a predator kicks into high gear and a heroic rescue unfolds in the nick of time.

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    December 10, 2024 53 mins

    When a retired couple vanishes on an afternoon walk behind their apartment in New Hampshire in the spring of 2022, it's all hands on deck to find them. When the horror of what happened to them is revealed, it sends investigators down a rabbit hole of clues which lead to the doorstep of a young man with a dark past.

    View source material and photos for this episode at: parkpredators.com/the-tenter

     

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    December 3, 2024 31 mins

    An experienced mountaineer from France is abducted in an Algerian national park and an international incident ensues. World leaders hunt down a group of suspected killers, only to find that many of them have gone underground and continue to evade justice to this day.

     

    View source material and photos for this episode at: parkpredators.com/the-mountaineer


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