From the Ranger Vault; Shenandoah NP; The Joker's Demise
Bringing this one out from the Ranger Vault! This is one of our favorite early episodes and it was Nancy's debut as a "guest" host! A brutal crime was committed at Ft Eustis Military base in Virginia...
15 Dec 202557min
The Wasatch National Forest: Nightmare on the Mountain
A Utah father’s “family hike” up the steep and strenuous Broads Fork Trail in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest turned into a horrific, life-threatening ordeal for his three young children when ...
8 Dec 202534min
The Predator of Wolf Lodge Bay: Inside the Groene Family Case
In May 2005, a quiet corner of Wolf Lodge Bay near Lake Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, became the center of one of the most disturbing true crime cases in Pacific Northwest history. When a neighbor discovered ...
1 Dec 202525min
White Mountains National Forest; A Grim Discovery on Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day, 2001: deep in the quiet forests of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, searchers made a grim discovery — the body of 52-year-old Canadian hiker who had vanished after setting out for a ...
24 Nov 202524min
Sequoia and Kings Canyon NP; Drunk Gone Wild Under the Giant Trees
In the shadow of the world’s largest trees, a midnight encounter between park rangers and an intoxicated camper spirals into a chaotic and violent confrontation. What begins as a routine DUI investiga...
10 Nov 202528min
Big Bend National Park; A Cold Trail to Mexico
Big Bend National Park is a place of vast beauty and haunting isolation—where the desert meets the Rio Grande and desolation and silence stretches for miles. But in February 2022, that silence was bro...
3 Nov 202538min
Crime Off the Grid Newsroom October, 2025
In the news: an arrest is made in the case of 2 teens found dead in an Arizona National Forest; Convictions for illegal BASE jumping in Yosemite; Hikers take cover as shots fly over their heads in a w...
27 Okt 202540min
Yosemite National Park; A Canyon's Curse
In Yosemite National Park, Tenaya Canyon is known as both stunning and cursed. Legend says Chief Tenaya, the last leader of the Ahwahneechee, placed a curse on the land after his people’s destruction....
20 Okt 202523min
