Hi, Park enthusiasts. I'm your host, Delia Diambra. And this is the second of two episodes covering

the murder of Kathy Sposito in Prescott National Forest in June 1987. If you haven't listened to

part one, I recommend you press pause and jump back. Otherwise, you'll be thoroughly confused,

and I promise you the small details of this decades-long investigation are important to

understanding the entire picture. So I don't want you to miss a bead. In part two, I'm going to be

going back in time myself because there's a timeline to this case that is vitally important to follow.

To quickly refresh your memory, Kathy was killed while hiking on Thumbute Trail on the morning of

Saturday, June 13, 1987. She'd been beaten, cut with a sharp object, and shot in the left eye.

Several people on the same trail she was walking heard her scream for help, but didn't get to her in time.

At the crime scene, authorities found two rocks with hair and blood on them, a 22-caliber cartridge

case near her body, and a long trail of blood leaning from her final resting place about 130

feet up the trailhead, near where a female hiker discovered a metal ratchet wrench laying

on the ground. Despite investigators' diligent efforts throughout the ensuing years, the case stalled and eventually went cold.

But what I didn't tell you in part one is that Kathy's case wasn't the only vicious assault in the Prescott National Forest area in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

There were others. This is Park Predators.

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I At 7.20 in the morning, on Sunday, April 22nd, 1990, a 33-year-old woman was hiking alone down Thumb Butte Trail in Prescott National Forest

when she heard what sounded like a person running up behind her.

Initially, she assumed it was someone jogging the trail, so she stepped aside to let them

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