When two young lovers are found brutally murdered in a designated park shelter on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania, authorities work quickly to capture their killer. The man they come face-to-face though with has a dark past and list of even more victims across two U.S. states.
The Episode
- Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Inmate Search
- National Park Service
- Outside Online: Murder on the Appalachian Trail, by Earl Swift.
- UPI: Hikers murdered along Appalachian Trail, by UPI.
- York Daily Record (York, PA): Slayings cast violent shadow over trail, by Michael Argento.
- York Daily Record from York, Pennsylvania
- The Philadelphia Inquirer: For two hikers, the Appalachian Trail led to death, by Paul Nussbaum via Newspapers.com.
- The Philadelphia Inquirer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- The Tampa Tribune: Death-row inmate to be extradited from Pennsylvania by via newspapers.com
- 3-Time Killer gets life term for local slaying. The Tampa Tribune via newspapers.com
- The Reds The Yellows The Blues by Molly LaRue and Jim LaRue
- The Sentinel (Carlisle, PA): ‘She was… never happier in her life’, by David Morris via Newspapers.com.
- The New York Times: Hiker Slaying Suspect Tied to Florida Death, by Associated Press. via web.archive.org.
- The Morning Call (Allentown, PA): Man arrested in Appalachian Trail Slayings, by Terry Mutchler. via Newspapers.com.
- The Tampa Tribune: Paul David Crews extradited and charged with Clemmie Arnold’s Murder. By Bill Heery.
- The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC): Suspect In Hiker Killings Waives Extradition, by The Associated Press. via Newspapers.com.
- News-Press (Fort Myers, FL): Hikers rewarded for help in murder suspect capture, by Associated Press via Newspapers.com.
- Lancaster New Era (Lancaster, PA): Death penalty is sought in trail slayings, by Associated Press. Via Newspapers.com.
- Los Angeles Times: Troubled Loner Faces 3 Charges of Murder : Violence: The arrest of Paul David Crews in a double slaying on the Appalachian Trail followed a life of bitterness, depression, drug abuse., by Terry Mutchler.
- Orlando Sentinel: MAN FACES TRIAL IN DEATHS ALONG APPALACHIAN TRAIL.
- The Sentinel (Carlisle, PA): DNA links Crews, by Associated Press. via Newspapers.com.
- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA): Convicted of killing 2 hikers, by Paul Nussbaum. via Newspapers.com.
- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA): Trail killer sentenced to death, by Paul Nussbaum.
- The Missoulian (Missoula, MT): Farmhand gets death for murdering hikers, by Associated Press. via Newspapers.com.
- Greensboro News & Record (Greensboro, SC): QUIET BURLINGTON KID WAS A KILLER\ BUT FRIENDS DON’T KNOW WHY, by Thomas A. Barstow..
- The Evening Sun (Hanover, PA): DNA evidence upheld in killing of hikers, by Associated Press.
- Com. V. Crews. 1994. Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision by Justice John Flaherty. via Justia.com.
- The Sentinel (Carlisle, PA): Old barn recycles into new trail shelter, by Tatiana Zarnowski. via Newspapers.com.
- The Baltimore Sun: Parents’ grief leads to comfort, by Tim Craig.
- Crews v. Horn. March 4, 2004. United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit decision by Circuit Judge Roth. via Findlaw.com.
- History of DNA Testing
- The Sentinel (Carlisle, PA): Murder appeals set to end, by Tatiana Zarnowski. via Newspapers.com.
- Ohio Wesleyan University Magazine: The Reds. The Yellows. The Blues., by Laura Arenschield.
- Pennsylvania Real-Time News: ‘They could make a change in the world’: But they were murdered 30 years ago on the Appalachian Trail, by Deb Kiner.
- Strange Outdoors: Murder on the Appalachian Trail.