Hi, Park enthusiasts. I'm your host, Dilya DeAmbra, and the case I have for you today shook

me to my core because it's the heroing tale of a through and through predator who literally

hunted a family for days in the wilderness of British Columbia, Canada. What happened

to the Johnson and Bentley families inside the rugged and beautiful woods of Wells Gray

Provincial Park in the summer of 1982 is considered to this day one of the worst mass murders

in Canadian history. The park itself is located five hours north of East Van Coover and is

one of 391 parks in the country that's considered a Class A wilderness area. Now, Class A status

means that the parkland is fully protected. No one, including commercial companies, are

permitted to extract industrial resources from it, even though the land is rich for mining

and logging. The park is mostly uninhabited and since 1939 has been considered a pristine

sanctuary for nature. In August 1982, one man used several remote locations within this

park to carry out horrific crimes. What he did forever changed to families and the natural

fear of people all across Canada. This is park predators.

In August 22, 1982, a 38-year-old man named Kurt Crack was picking berries and walking

through some densely wooded area of Wells Gray Provincial Park. He was just minding

his own business when all of a sudden he noticed something strange. There, a few feet ahead

of him, stashed behind a bunch of brush and berry bushes, was the burned out shell of

a sedan. Kurt, who was from the area, initially thought the car was just another case of someone

dumping abandoned property in the park. With so much uninhabited wilderness, it wasn't

uncommon for people to just let nature take its course with their unwanted junk. But Kurt

noticed that the spot where the car was located, so far off the beaten path, seemed more

odd than usual. For one, the sedan wasn't close to any roads, so Kurt knew whoever

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