Hi, Park enthusiasts. I'm your host, Dilya DeAmbra. And the story I'm going to share with you today is one that literally brought me to tears while researching it.

Mostly because I feel like the victims in this case were doing the same kind of adventuring that my husband and I do on a regular basis.

They were just people traveling to and camping near national parks they'd never been to before.

The story takes place in British Columbia Canada in the summer of 2019. It's a case that has multiple victims and more than one perpetrator, all of whom were very different ages.

The victims were vacationing in the scenic British Columbia Alberta border, which is an area British Columbia dot com refers to as the Greater Yukon region.

The roadways in this area are isolated for long stretches of time and when I say long stretches, I mean like hundreds and hundreds of miles of nothing but wilderness and rivers.

And just like the mountains in Alberta's Banff and Jasper National Parks spill over into British Columbia, so too did the lives of two teenagers into the unsuspecting paths of three innocent travelers.

The crimes that followed set off the largest manhunt in Canadian history that led authorities across four provinces searching for answers that to this day have never come.

This is Park Predators.

On July 22nd, 2019, Split Lake First Nation Safety Officer Albert Saunders was driving around on his normal patrol route in Manitoba, Canada when he spotted a traffic violation.

Up ahead of him, he saw a red and gray Dodge pickup truck with a camper shell on the back run a red light at an intersection.

Albert quickly flashed his lights and pulled over the truck. Inside were two young men who appeared to be in their late teens. They looked nervous, really nervous.

Albert told them he'd watch them run right through that red light and that they needed to be more careful. The teens just nodded in agreement and apologized.

Albert told the Daily Mail, quote, they looked scared. I spoke to the one with the mustache and he just kept saying, sorry, they didn't say where they were going.

End quote.

A little unsettled by their nervous jitters, Albert said he decided to search the boys pickup truck in camper shell, but he didn't find anything suspicious.

The only items in the back were survival gear and maps, pretty common belongings for people driving in that area who like to hike or camp in the wilderness.

Realizing he had nothing to keep them further, Albert told the boys to be more careful driving and sent them on their way.

As he watched them drive off, Albert had no idea he was letting two serial killers go free.

Six days before Albert made that traffic stop, two motorists driving on Alaska Highway 97 on the morning of Monday, July 15, pulled over to check on a blue 1986 Chevrolet van.

The van, which had an Alberta license plate, was parked 20 kilometers or about 12 miles south of a town called Leard Hot Springs, British Columbia.

The blue van got the motorist's attention because the back window was busted out and there was glass all over the shoulder of the road.

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