Crime Off The Grid
Crime Off the Grid is a podcast about true crime stories from our National Parks and other wild places.
All of our guests and co-hosts, bring years of experience working in National Parks, National Forests and other wild places. Our guests are rangers, investigators, prosecutors, victim specialists, and other first responders who have dedicated their careers to justice and safety in places off the grid.
Join the hosts and me where we discuss cases, listen to Ranger Tales; real rangers telling real stories that you just can't make up, and...report news and commentary from wild places from the Crime Off the Grid Newsroom!
Take a listen to our Intro first so you have a good idea what we're talking about!
Episodes
56 episodes
MMIP: A Conversation with Skeet Fighter
Join the conversation with Melissa Skeet, aka Skeet Fighter. Melissa is an Indigenous Woman who is roller skating across the US on The Great Skate Tour raising awareness for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons crisis.<...
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52:00
Mt Hood National Forest; A Serial Killer's First
Ever heard of 2 degrees from Kevin Bacon? Nancy and Tara are now 3 degrees from a serial killer. They ran into a woman while hiking who told them about her cousin who was a serial killer's first victim in a national forest (which made her...
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32:06
Gallatin River Montana; The Fisherman's Secret
At the river's edge along the Gallatin, a murder is brought to justice for the killing of a 15 year old girl after years of hiding in plain site.For more information about the podcast, check outhttps://crimeoffthegrid.com/Also.....
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28:35
Wrangell-St Elias; Hillbilly Hell
A hippie turned religious fundamentalist moves his family of 15 children to Alaska and creates what he calls "Hillbilly Heaven." He picks a fight with the National Park Service and all of his abuses on his family get exposed.For m...
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47:44
Glacier Nat'l Park; A Murderer's Mistake
A horrific crime against a child is committed in the middle of the country. The case went cold for months until the suspect described as "Charlie Manson on steroids" decides to go to Glacier National Park. (Apologies, there is a bit of an...
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1:00:17
Blue Ridge Parkway; A Father's Betrayal
When Park Rangers investigate possible illegal campers, they come upon the unthinkable. For more information about the podcast, check outhttps://crimeoffthegrid.com/Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagram...
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36:48
Yosemite; Jump and Run
A BASE jumper makes an illegal jump in the pre-dawn morning from El Capitan. When he landed, park rangers were waiting for him and things took an unimaginable turn. Hear Ranger Bonnie describe that day, and another event that occurr...
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39:56
Death Valley Nat'l Park; Got Meth?
Tara and Nancy are discussing a crazy case where a ranger found the biggest clandestine meth lab inside Death Valley National Monument (before it was a Nat'l Park). For more information about the podcast, check outhttps://crimeoffth...
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35:43
Little River Canyon National Preserve; What Happened to Beth?
Beth had been missing for nearly 2 months in the Lookout Mountain area of Alabama before someone finally made a report to the police. Suspects have been arrested, but what's the rest of the story?For more information about the pod...
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Blue Ridge Parkway; Murder in the Sky
An aspiring chef who is working at the Pisgah Inn on top of the Blue Ridge Parkway goes for a hike, but doesn't come back. For more information about the podcast, check outhttps://crimeoffthegrid.com/Also...We've Got Merch!!...
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25:39
US Forest Service; Got Weed?
Combo episode! Nancy and Tara talk about a case of a USFS Special Agent arresting an illicit marijuana grower in Los Padres National Forest in California after a violent attack. PLUS, Nancy shares a Ranger Tale about her experience in eradicati...
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41:36
Grand Canyon; Fugitive Over the Edge
A suspect wanted for the murder of his ex-girlfriend in Texas flees to the Grand Canyon. When Rangers start to close in, the suspect does an unexpected "cat-like" move.For more information about the podcast, check out https://...
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42:50
Oconee National Forest; The Unscrupulous Hunter
A Forest Service Law Enforcement Officer is conducting surveillance when an unscrupulous hunter causes a deadly encounter.For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got ...
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Rocky Mountain National Park; Black Widower
A couple go on an anniversary hike in Rocky Mountain National Park to a cliffside lunchspot, but soon ends in a fatal fall. But this is not the first time for the not so grieving widower.For more information about the podcast, che...
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44:59
Ranger Tales: Yellowstone Hostage Crisis
Old Faithful Patrol, there is a man with the gun in the Visitor Center and has taken hostages! "Um...Can you repeat that???" For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also....
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30:47
Olympic Nat'l Forest; A Tragic Tequila Sunrise
A woman flies from California to Washington to meet the man she's been having a secret affair with, when the planned rendezvous turns into tragedy. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeofft...
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31:32
Roosevelt NF; Attacked at Signal Mountain
Two women were just out enjoying a lovely hike on the Signal Mountain Trail in the Roosevelt National Forest when they have an encounter that will change their lives forever.For more information about the podcast, check out htt...
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39:53
Crime Off the Grid Newsroom June 2024
Top stories include a multistate poaching investigation, the creation of "alternative livestock," and...it's touron season, so you know someone had a preventable yet predictable encounter with (I'll let you guess...).For more informatio...
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31:58
Great Smoky Mountains Nat'l Park; Tag Team Predators
A couple of predators seek out their victims from the most vulnerable of communities, but they make the great mistake of committing their crimes in a National Park.For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffth...
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35:30
Crater Lake; The Death of "Renfield"
Rangers respond to a very tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving scene at a campground in Crater Lake.For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/Also...We've Got Merch!! Che...
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32:09
Everglades; Birds of a Feather...
The work of protecting the environment has often been difficult, depressing, and even deadly. In the late 1800s, the beautiful plume birds of the Everglades ecosystem was nearly obliterated. When the bird conservation movement headed by the new...
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41:12
Ranger Tales; Rainbow Family of Living Light
The Rainbow Family of Living Light is made up of loosely knit communities of people, who congregate in remote forests around the world for one or more weeks at a time with the stated intention of living a shared ideology of peace, harmony, free...
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The Cop Killers' Trail
A father brainwashes his sons to hate police and the government. The trail from Idaho to Alaska, to Death Valley National Park and eventually comes to a deadly end in Montana.For more information about the podcast, check out&n...
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