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After a day of searching, the bodies of the two women were found at a creekside campsite, just off of the Appalchain Trail. The scene was near milepost 42 along Skyline Drive, less than 1/2 of a mile from Skyland Resort, a popular tourist locale, and close to the Drive. The women were found bound and gagged, with their throats slit.
- The Original Suspect
At the time of the murders, there was one particular man who...
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Appalachian trail in Shenandoah National Park. Their deaths...
- The Original Suspect
Jun 2, 2016 · The FBI wants renewed national attention for the unsolved deaths of two young women killed in the Shenandoah National Park near Skyland Lodge in 1996. Family and friends of Julie Williams and ...
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- A Double Murder in Shenandoah National Park
- Instead, That Was The Day That Park Rangers Found Her body.
- The Challenges of Solving Crimes in National Parks
- A Suspect Emerges
- Still Waiting For Answers
On Sunday May 19, 1996, Julie Williams and Lollie Winans embarked on a backpacking trip in Shenandoah National Park with their golden retriever, Taj. Julie, 24, of St. Cloud, Minnesota and Lollie, 26, of Unity, Maine, pitched their tent off of one of Shenandoah National Park’s horse trails. They chose a peaceful spot next to a mountain stream, whic...
On May 31, 1996, Thomas Williams, Julie’s father, reported his daughter missing. Park Rangers started a search and located Julie and Lollie’s car just north of Skyland Lodge. “We started doing hasty searches to cover all of those trail corridors in that general area to see if we could locate them,” explains Bridget Bohnet, Deputy Chief Ranger at Sh...
Scroll through the National ParkService’s list of cold cases and you’ll find that it’s easy to disappear in the woods. There are a number of reasons that people go missing, most of which are attributed to accidental falls or wrong turns. Statistically, when it comes to crime, public lands are incredibly safe. In fact, Julie and Lollie’s murders wer...
Shenandoah’s Skyline Driveis a popular place for a bike ride and in July 1997, that’s what Yvonne Malbasha, a tourist from Canada, had come to do. As she pedaled the mountainous road, admiring the Blue Ridge views, Malbasha was forced off the road and off her bike by a man driving a truck. He screamed sexual profanities at her as he stepped from hi...
Last year, around the twentieth anniversary of Julie and Lollie’s murders, the FBI circulated a press release and updated posters. “The case remains an open and active investigation,” says Dee Rybiski of the FBI. “It’s our hope that any continued coverage of the girls’ murders will one day generate that one crucial piece of information that may bri...
Mar 20, 2023 · In the summer of 1996 in Shenandoah National Park, two women, Julie Williams and Lollie Winans, were murdered not far from the Appalachian Trail. The case remains unsolved today. Journalist Kathryn Miles recently wrote about the murders in a new book titled, “Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders.” The book goes beyond true crime, and wraps in Miles’ personal ...
Sep 12, 2019 · The second page of a note from a hiker whose trail name is "Lawman" at the Thelma Marks shelter on the Appalachian Trail two months after the Sept. 13, 1990, murder of hikers Molly LaRue and Geoff ...
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May 13, 2022 · One of the most infamous examples in recent history is the murders of Julie Williams and Lollie Winans, two young white queer women whose 1996 deaths in Shenandoah National Park remain unsolved. I ...
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Jun 4, 1996 · June 4, 1996 at 1:00 a.m. EDT. Two young women were slain at a secluded campsite near the Appalachian Trail in Shenandoah National Park, authorities said yesterday after finding the hikers' bodies ...
