Hi, park enthusiasts. I'm your host, Dillia Diambra. And the case I'm going to tell you about today

requires a little bit of time travel. It took place more than 100 years ago at Little and Big Lava

Lakes in Oregon's Deschutes National Forest. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's

website, Little Lava Lake sits about half-mile south of big lava

lake. Both bodies of water are byproducts of lava flows that, a long time ago, form dams on

their shorelines. Even though Little Lava is only 130 acres in size, it's actually the source of the

Deshutes River, so talk about small but powerful.

Both lakes are also teeming with trout, whitefish, and other species of fish.

The state record for the largest brook trout ever snagged in Little Lava Lake was nine pounds,

six ounces, and that was back in 1980.

Decades before that, though, something else was discovered in and around these

bodies of water that made the history books, and it had nothing to do with fishing. In the cold

winter of 1924, three men monitoring a fur-trapping outpost near the lakes vanished, only to

resurface in a place no one expected.

If you think you know the story of the Little Lava Lake murders, buckle up, because you probably don't.

At least not as well as you may think.

This is Park Predators.

Music I'm Bye By mid-April, 1924, a woman named Sarah Wilson was extremely worried.

You see, had been several months since her 36-year-old son, Harry Leroy Wilson, who often just

went by Roy, had left their home in Bend, Oregon,

and headed about 25 miles southwest to Little Lava Lake into Shutes National Forest.

The last time Sarah had physically seen Roy was around Christmas of 1923. At that time, he and one of

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