Hi Park enthusiasts, I'm your host Delia de Ambrose, and the case I'm going to tell you about today

takes place in the Grand Canyon at a remote spot known for being a hidden paradise, Havasu

Falls.

This area technically sits outside of Grand Canyon National Park

and is within the boundary of the Havasupei Native American Reservation.

This story is a tragic tale of murder and unlike some cases I've told you about on this show it doesn't have a complicated narrative.

There aren't multiple people involved or multiple theories about what might have really happened.

It's the case of a cold-blooded killing perpetrated by a young man who was hell-bent on robbing and killing the most vulnerable person he thought he could find.

A young woman hiking alone.

He used his lifelong knowledge of the remote rugged landscape he'd grown up in to try and

cover up his crime.

But eventually, it all caught up to him.

The murder of Tumami Hanamure in the summer of 2006

should be a case that sticks with you

long after listening to this episode.

She was a young Japanese woman with so much life still ahead of her and so much left to give this

world.

But it was all cruelly ripped away from her far too soon.

I also want you to remember this episode for another reason.

Remember it as a warning. To think twice whenever you encounter someone who says they're a local.

Maybe you've bumped into someone like this on a trail or while getting directions traveling internationally.

Well, let this episode be a reminder that sometimes a local may be the last person you want to encounter.

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