Hi, park enthusiasts. I'm your host, D'Lia Diambra, and the case I'm going to tell you about today

takes place in Blue Mound State Park in Minnesota. Blue Mounds is a recreation area located in the

southwest part of the state and has a little bit of everything to offer. According to the Minnesota

Department of Natural Resources website, there's a 100-foot-high

cliff in the park, beautiful prairie grasslands, and a diverse array of wildlife, including birds,

coyotes, elk, and one of my favorite creatures, the bison. You can hike and camp in the park

as well, with the proper permit. Back in the mid to late 1800s, explorers and settlers who

traveled to the western United States noticed when they passed through this landscape that

there was a really big cliff in the area that looked bluish in the right light. So they referred to it

as the blue mound. Well, turns out that cliff wasn't actually blue. It was just made of a type of rock now

known as Sue Courtsite, which can appear blue. And just like how the park got its nickname,

the clues in this crime were more than met the eye. It's just that investigators back in May of 2001

didn't know that. Or rather, they didn't have the tools to know that.

But with time and patience came new opportunities,

opportunities that would help catch a killer.

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I'm Around two Around 245 in the afternoon of Sunday, May 20, 2001, a woman named Rebecca White, who was a new employee training at Blue Mound State Park in Minnesota, walked into the park's office expecting to see her co-worker, 20-year-old Carrie Nelson,

sitting behind the customer service counter. Normally, Carrie would greet her with a friendly smile,

but oddly, Carrie wasn't around, and no one else was moseying around inside the building either.

I imagine that sight struck Rebecca as odd, which is why she walked into the building

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