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Forensic Files

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Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In 1984, a couple set off for a camping trip but got lost and fell asleep at a scenic overlook in Virginia

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0:00.0

In 1984, a young couple got lost searching for a campsite in Virginia's Blue Ridge Parkway.

0:10.7

They decided to spend the night sleeping in their car.

0:16.2

They were awakened by a white male in his mid-30s at 3 a.m.

0:27.4

But the couple saw that night.

0:29.6

Their eyewitness description of the assailant was all that police had to go on.

0:44.8

When the 19-year-old woman entered 22-year-of-fiance where rusted from sleep, they assumed the man

0:51.0

was a policeman.

0:52.1

Move to the rear of the vehicle, please.

0:56.7

Blinded by his flashlight and concerned that they have broken the law, they handed over their car keys as ordered.

1:03.9

Suddenly, the man produced a gun and told the fiancé to run into the woods.

1:10.0

He threatened to kill him if he didn't obey.

1:12.4

Mo!

1:13.4

The young woman now terrified for her life was forced at gunpoint into the man's vehicle.

1:19.0

Open the door.

1:20.0

Open it.

1:22.0

Get in the back.

1:23.0

Keep your head down.

1:24.0

Don't look at him.

1:25.7

He drove her to a secluded campsite about a half hour away.

1:33.0

That's far enough.

1:34.0

All you need.

1:36.3

And over the next two hours, repeatedly raped and sawdemised her.

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