Hi 2020 podcast listeners this is Deborah Roberts co-anchor of 2020.

We're back with season 3 of wild crime a series from ABC News Studios about elite investigative teams that solve dangerous

crimes in our national parks and wilderness areas.

Here's Blood Mountain, episode one, The Missing. So here's the thing about the National Forest if you enjoy isolating yourself from the real world.

A criminal has that same opportunity.

You don't expect to encounter a monster on a hiking trail.

In northeast Georgia a search continues for a missing 24 year old hiker.

It is impossible to commit a crime without leaving evidence.

There's not much chance that she's still alive.

And I realized that I was a potential victim.

He is acting out hunting scenes from the movie. Young women being set loose in the forest and then hunted down and murdered.

Everybody was looking for him.

Emergency 911.

The man he's been on the news who, get that and killed hikers this year we think.

At some point, there would be more victims.

I got a really weird feeling this is a human skull.

It's the stuff of nightmares.

Once you've taken someone you either killed him or you get caught.

One of the most vile murderers I've ever dealt with.

Secrets in the wild, beautiful yet treacherous places.

These are the stories of the investigators who solve crimes in the

wilderness. Where the We're at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.

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