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Park Predators

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4.4 • 15.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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When a beloved caretaker is murdered in the remote Australian bushland of Alpine National Park, authorities suspect another employee of the homestead is to blame... but when a second body turns up, a harrowing reality sets in. A vicious killer is on the loose. More than 100 years later, the identity of the perpetrator remains a mystery.

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0:00.0	Hi Park enthusiasts, I'm your host Delia Diembra and the case I'm going to tell you about today
0:06.1	is one that I stumbled upon while researching an episode last season titled The Pilot.
0:11.9	The big difference between that story and this one is there titled The episode happened
0:25.0	sometime in 1917 or possibly 1918.
0:30.0	Despite this huge gap in time in 17 or
0:28.0	possibly 1918.
0:30.0	Despite this huge gap in time, what the stories have in common is they're both
0:35.1	double murders. They both happened in the exact same remote bushland in Australia,
0:40.3	and they were both missing persons cases well before anyone knew foul play was involved.
0:47.0	Whoever killed John Bamford and James Barclay at Wannen got a station in what is now Alpine National Park in Victoria,
0:54.6	got away with a heinous crime.
0:56.8	I think the killer or killers who took these men's lives
1:00.5	were betting that the environment would cover up their crimes. And in a way, that's
1:05.3	kind of what happened. The minimal clues that were left behind still vex law enforcement and historians
1:12.0	to this day. The vast bushland of this part of the
1:15.6	Victorian Alps unfortunately has many tales of misfortune, but I don't think any
1:21.0	story is as wildly bizarre or puzzling as the deaths of John and James.
1:27.0	This is Park Predators. The Around 6 o'clock in the evening on Tuesday, January 22nd, 1918, a man named Harry Smith
1:56.4	walked up to a house on the main homestead of a remote property in Wannangata Valley, Victoria, Australia,
2:03.0	expecting to see his dear friend, James Barclay.
2:07.0	James was the manager of Wannengut a station,
2:09.5	which meant he spent nearly all his time at the property.
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