[at-l] More....again

[Carla & Dave Hicks]

I feel the same way.

The case that really highlighted that for me was the murder of Julie Williams 
and Lollie Winans near the AT in the Shenandoah back in '96.

In most of the press they were the "AT Murders."  They weren't "Skyland Lodge 
Murders" -- although that were they eat and spent time there just before their 
death.  They weren't "National Park Murders" although they had hiked a number 
of other trails in the SNP.

Few newspapers  mentioned that in the previous year (1995), there had been 15 
homicides in National Parks.  However, many contained a blurb near the end 
like the following:

"They were the eighth and ninth people killed in the past two decades along 
the Appalachian Trail. "In three of those cases, they were double-murders: six 
incidents, nine murders," the ATC's Brian King was quoted as saying by the 
Associated Press.

"In 1988, a man frightened two women off the trail and shot them, killing one, 
in south-central Pennsylvania. Two years later, a man and his fiancée were 
shot to death as they slept in the Thelma Marks Shelter on the A.T. south of 
Duncannon, Pa.

"In May 1981, a man and a woman hiking from Maine to Georgia were killed in a 
remote cabin near Pearisburg, Va.  A Wisconsin woman was hacked to death by a 
hiker with a hatchet in Tennessee in April 1975. A 26-year-old man was killed 
at a shelter in Georgia in May 1974."

Chainsaw

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Felix J" <athiker at smithville.net>
To: "AT -L" <at-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: [at-l] More....again


Felix J wrote:
> Linda Patton wrote:
>
>> Not sure that she was a 'hiker' that we would have known:
>> http://tinyurl.com/3a4hgh
>>
>
> about as much as Meredith Emerson, though.

Which reminds me...I always hate how 'they' like to tack on some mention
of the AT to these stories. At the bottom of nearly every article I've
read about this Emerson case there was a sentence or two about "The
Appalachian Trail runs through this area. It is a 2,174 mile hiking
trail that leads from Georgia to Maine."   I don't believe that I've
read where either of the two were ever actually on the AT.  Seems to be
a cheap sensationalization tactic to me.




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