He walked south from there, assuming the guise of a through-hiker. Polsom was murdered at the Low Gap Trail Shelter along the Appalachian Trail in the Chattahoochee National Forest. They found one such bag at Thelma Marks, the other at Darlington. Appalachian National Scenic Trail Human Rights Campaign Published correction ran Saturday, April 13, 2002.A story on Thursday's front page incorrectly said the murders … It blends comfortably, unobtrusively, into its setting, has become one with the surrounding timber. When I visited this past spring, saplings and tangled brier so colonized the old shelter’s footprint that I might have missed it, had I not slept there myself. Oh, you think it’s fine? The ruling came one day after the same jury deliberated for about 49 minutes before finding Crews guilty of two counts of first-degree murder. HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A suspect in the double murder on the Appalachian Trail has been arrested in West Virginia, officials said Saturday. James L. Jordan, 30, of West Yarmouth, Mass., was charged in the fatal stabbing of one person and the wounding of another on the Appalachian Trail. Greg left notes in shelter logs asking where I was, but he stayed just ahead of me. But they slowed as they approached the lean-to’s rear. Jerry Philpott, the Duncannon lawyer who represented Crews at his 1991 trial, says he believes the couple reached the shelter first. I missed my girlfriend. “We reminded one another before we started this ordeal that there would be tough days: Days we would ask ourselves, ‘Why are we doing this?’ ” Molly admitted early on, in a journal they shared. A librarian suggested he try the York branch, wrote directions, and asked that he sign the guest book. He had pizza with the victims the day before and had traveled with them for a few hours before parting ways. The next morning Fox shot Polson in the back of the head and kidnapped McFaddin. We expected to reunite with them that night. “If someone were murdered in God's cathedral, then murder could be committed anyplace.”. There was a problem saving your notification. We hear from our audience every day about how much they love our long-form journalism. They were traveling as a pair, too, which was considered common sense. “That day half my future was taken from me,” she told Crews. Paperback. That night, while feasting on shrimp and mushrooms, the couple signed the Doyle’s register, countering a previous hiker’s claim that he was the last of 1990’s southbounders. So he was hiking, she realized. “She looked like she was asleep. “Peace be with you.”. It’s tall and airy and skylit, with a deep porch, two tiers of wooden bunks, and a picnic table. They gave shout-outs to other hikers, including one named Skip “Muskratt” Richards, whom they’d met in Monson. They burned the wood in a bonfire, scattered the rock foundation. “Molly had decided to devote her life to working with troubled children, like you certainly were,” he told him. Beyond the murder mystery is the tragic story of two women in love. History and education reporter for The Sentinel. Another southbounder was already there: Marcus Macaluso, a.k.a. Others joined Marla after me—Kansas friends, a couple of hikers the ATC had lined up, and the ATC’s chief spokesman, Brian King—before an infected blister forced Marla off the trail in Virginia. Their deaths seemed a terrible accident of time and geography. “We got a phone call from her one day,” Molly’s father, Jim LaRue, recalls. In the morning—Wednesday, September 12, 1990—they met Molly’s elderly great aunt and two other relatives on the town square, then accompanied them to lunch at a nearby truck stop. He huffed, impatient, when Greg didn’t jump to clear the space. She knew her son was careful. You have permission to edit this article. This much is known: later in the day on September 13, Crews returned to the trail and hiked north into Duncannon without his red gym bags. Glenda Hood held her hand shortly before she died in July 2006. He unpacked, muttering, as our conversation resumed. During their 2,200 mile hike of the Appalachian Trail, going by the trail names of Clevis and Nalgene, the couple arrived at the Thelma Marks Shelter on top of Cove Mountain at about 5 p.m. on September 13, 1990.. Geoff and Molly walked two blocks to the Doyle Hotel, the crumbling fossil of a once grand inn. As […] Eight nights later, a southbound couple I’d befriended early in my hike followed me into Thelma Marks. I drove to Duncannon, slept at the Doyle, then swore my way uphill to the clearing. He’s also a Southern Baptist minister. Last evening I whispered “I think there’re less bugs.” And near as anyone can tell, they did everything right. Eleven days into my hike, I stumbled out of the woods and into Monson, Maine, where I met Greg Hammer, an Army vet in his late twenties whose Virginia home was just a short distance from mine. Perhaps the shelter’s remoteness—far greater than that of past trouble—played into our big-city uneasiness about what lurks in the woods at night. Glazerow was one of about a dozen hikers called to testify in the prosecution case against Crews. We read our trail journals aloud, laughed over our descriptions of Rubin, then turned to the subject of Geoff and Molly. Paul David Crews after his capture. The forest got busy reclaiming the footprint. “It’s beyond eerie,” said Mark Glazerow, known on the trail as “Doc.” “If the (perpetrator) would have been a day earlier, this trail would have been about my death.” A Baltimore area jeweler, Glazerow had slept at the shelter Sept. 12, 1990. Smith murdered two hikers on the Appalachian Trail in May 1981. He was a short, stocky man, considered smart and hardworking by his bosses. It was close to 5 p.m. when they started climbing and about six when they reached the turnoff. 2001: Louise Chaput from Quebec was killed by an unknown assailant with unknown motives. The Sentinel on Oct. 18, 1990 reported how Crews was wanted on a first-degree murder charge in Florida. When we had that conversation, Crews was in the custody of federal park rangers in Harpers Ferry, having been captured a few hours before as he walked a bridge across the Potomac. Gene “Flat Feet” Butcher decided not to dally and hiked up Cove Mountain shortly after Crews had descended the same path. “The sun was coming down through the trees, and it was a peaceful place, despite what had happened there. Last week, a federal district court judge ruled that James “Sovereign” Jordan, the Massachusetts man charged with the murder of hiker Ronald “Stronghold” Sanchez, isn’t competent to stand trial.The ruling brings to an end—at least temporarily—one of the most disturbing stories to emerge from the Appalachian Trail in the past decade, while leaving questions about the case open. "Murder on the Appalachian Trail" This is a book purportedly about the double murder of two hikers on the AT in the mid 80's @ Wapiti Shelter in SW VA. “I was really scared, but you have to keep the faith.”. The trail is about 2,200 miles (3,500 km) long, though the exact length changes over time as parts are rerouted or modified. He flipped through his trail journal, started reading. Those same years saw Connie LaRue fall ill with cancer and spend her final days in the hospice where she volunteered. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google, Thanks for signing up! This is something I just can’t handle. Sometime that night a 38-year-old drifter on the run from law enforcement killed both of … An hour later they were back in Duncannon, phoning the state police. Unclear. “I was sure it was them,” he says. Animal and I resolved to catch them. But the trial was not without its rewards. At the time, the AT followed 16 miles of paved road through Pennsylvania’s Cumberland Valley—a shadeless hike, hard on the feet. They were stopping to take pictures, to study plants, turtles, and salamanders, to bake bread. Molly, Geoff, and I talked about Salina, where I’d interviewed for a job once. That same day—September 5, 1990—a 38-year-old farmhand left his cabin on a South Carolina tobacco spread, caught a ride to the nearest Greyhound depot, and bought a one-way ticket north. They would have had plenty of room to unroll their sleeping gear and spread out a bit. Hikers were on hand to testify, and others, like me, had simply shown up. Twenty-five summers ago, I pulled into what was called the Thelma Marks shelter, near the halfway point of a southbound through-hike. Testimony in the trial started three days after Glenda’s hike, on May 15, 1991. Two hikers found the bodies in a three-sided log shelter. The climb over lichen-flaked stone and loose scree ended at Hawk Rock, a promontory offering a sweeping vista of the town, rivers, and rolling farmland below. She was later found naked and nearly decapitated on an abandoned railroad bed. If he hustled, he might make the Darlington shelter, little more than three miles away. He burst into tears. The Thelma Marks shelter, the day after the killings. In the quarter-century since my first visit there, through-hiking had mushroomed in popularity: in 1990, the ATC recorded more than 230 completed end-to-end treks, just eight of them southbound; last year, the total had grown to 961. They are shown here at Mount Katahdin in Maine. The three-sided structure was nestled among birch, poplar and oak trees on the south side of Cove Mountain about 30 feet below the trail that runs from Maine to Georgia. All were ghastly. $294.57. There he found the shelter littered with trash—including an empty red gym bag, a discarded bus ticket, and a library note written to someone named Casey Horn. And to have their lives snuffed out at that age—it’s a tragedy beyond words.”. Shortly after ten, when he’d paused to wolf down some bread, I told him he’d have to stop. They called the new place the Cove Mountain shelter. His companions were still eating when Glazerow announced that he had more hiking to do, wished them luck, and groaned his way up to Thelma Marks. Those crimes shared traits with what transpired at Thelma Marks. I couldn’t claim to know Geoff and Molly well, but they seemed far savvier in the woods than I was. Known on the trail as The Lone Moccasins, Cindi and Brian Bowen returned to Duncannon to report the crime. On this afternoon, the ATC’s Karen Lutz was surveying one such property when she noticed a bearded man plodding up the road behind her. Became a father the following month. All the indicators suggested that. Looking for something else? It was god-awful.”. The graffiti-carved plank floor slept four or five comfortably, eight in a pinch. Still, they beat us out of camp. I was still on the trail, hiking in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park, when a pair of day-hikers told me a couple had been killed on the trail up in Pennsylvania five days before. Which is how I first made their acquaintance, in a poem Molly left in a Maine lean-to and signed with her trail name, Nalgene. At the New Hampshire line I’d picked up a week. Molly LaRue and Geoffrey Logan Hood had camped for the night in a wooden lean-to known as the Thelma Marks Shelter a few miles outside Duncannon. One morning he crawled into bed behind her and held a bayonet to her throat. “I was up at the shelter. The wind rose to a sustained yowl, shredded the treetops, racked the old lean-to, seemed to be swelling toward a terrible end. “There we met Paul, whom we talked with quite a while. I have read that it is a true crime book & alternately that it is a work of fiction, based on actual events. We talked about some different ideas for him to try.”. Or the questions that lingered when the man responsible would not say why he shot Geoff three times or why he tied Molly’s hands behind her back and looped the rope around her neck. Subscribe to our What You Missed newsletter for the top headlines from the outdoor world, in your inbox six days a week. Outside Online aims to deliver readers the world, dispatching our writers and photographers to the ends of the earth to report the one-of-a-kind stories that have inspired and informed generations of readers. The irony was the same weekend Crews was apprehended, the victims’ families had planned to meet up with LaRue and Hood at Harpers Ferry to celebrate the midpoint of their trek down the Appalachian Trail. There was other incriminating evidence presented at trial. She awoke from a dream near the end to report that she’d seen Molly waiting for her. Back in town, Biff and Cindi Bowen retrieved a mail drop and stuffed themselves on pizza, ice cream, and beer. Cindi, an elementary school teacher, and Biff, a jeweler, knew they were close on Geoff and Molly’s heels. “I love you forever, I like you for always,” he wrote in April, when he was off in the backcountry. He had heard it was bad. He’d left his own gear at the scene, some of which was traced back to the tobacco farm in South Carolina. “He would take a quart of Jim Beam and a cigarette pack full of powder cocaine, and that’s how he would hike.”, Crews shared little information with him, Philpott says. They shared just three baths. But they also wrote in the logbooks left in shelters, which, in the days before cell phones, were the most reliable means for through-hikers to connect. “This week is always a tough one,” Lutz said. Near Manchester Center, Vermont, both Muskratt and Animal pulled ahead of me, and no matter how far or fast I hiked, I couldn’t catch up; they seemed to stay a shelter ahead through the rest of New England, until, after a hell-for-leather sprint, I managed to catch Muskratt just inside New York State. James Jordan, 30, was arrested on … We sped over the high, wild Presidential Range and down the 2,000-foot Webster Cliffs, setting up camp at the bottom two nights behind Geoff and Molly. Molly, a year younger, was a sunny, energetic artist who in high school had won a national contest to design a 1984 U.S. postage stamp. Lawmen in Pennsylvania began putting together their case. Or maybe what set this sad affair apart were the victims, who combined competence, wholesomeness, and smarts. They divorced, too. Cloistered from civilization by a steep 900-foot climb over loose and jutting rock, the glade goes unseen by most everyone but a straggle of hikers on the Appalachian Trail, the 2,180-mile footpath carved into the roofs of 14 eastern states. Afterward, they picked up mail, stopped at a small grocery, and, at 3:45 p.m., followed the trail into the woods and up Cove Mountain. A day later he stepped off a bus in Winchester, Virginia, and embarked on a zigzag course of hitched rides—west to Romney, West Virginia, north into Maryland, northeast to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—until, six days after leaving the farm, he walked into a library in East Berlin, Pennsylvania, halfway between Gettysburg and York, looking for hiking maps. They were going to make a difference. Crews was jailed, pending trial. Earl Swift is the author of five books, including Auto Biography: A Classic Car, an Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream. The Thelma Marks shelter, the day after the killings. Granola had pulled ahead of me, and I lay alone in a shelter that night, stunned and scared. Subscribe to our newsletters to stay up-to-date on the latest outdoor news. “We reached the Allentown shelter for breakfast,” Geoff wrote on September 6. This time the math didn’t work. “As you can’t read this we’ll tell you when we catch you! (Photo: Earl Swift). Though a few well-publicized homicides have occurred on trails or parklands near the AT since Geoff’s and Molly’s deaths, just one—the unsolved 2011 killing of an Indiana hiker, Scott “Stonewall” Lilly, near a shelter in Amherst County, Virginia—has claimed someone actually walking the path. The killer’s own words, to others he met in the days that followed, suggest they talked and that he stole their story along with their gear: he said he’d started hiking in Maine around the first of June and was trying to catch up with Muskratt. “These were good kids. The hikers unpacked their gear and called their parents, discussing their planned reunion in Harpers Ferry to celebrate making it halfway. Did they have a conversation with him? They live in a home on rolling woodland that they share with school groups exploring the natural world. Help the Mollys of this world learn who you are, and try to enlist the help of other inmates to help in this effort. They left upbeat log entries at every shelter. He pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of Robert Mountford Jr. and Laura Susan Ramsay, who were killed while hiking the Appalachian Trail, in May 1981. Geoff Hood and Molly LaRue were killed near Duncannon in 1990 while hiking the Appalachian Trail. Along the way, the hikers ahead of us came into focus, none more so than Nalgene and her partner, who called himself Clevis. “This might have to do with my age, but I find I get more emotional about it now,” says former Perry County, Pennsylvania, prosecutor R. Scott Cramer, who tried the case in 1991. “He could drink two quarts of Georgia moonshine and still shoot pool straight,” Brock said. “I know that sounds wacko, but that’s exactly what I felt,” she says. “There’s got to be a way you can pray to yourself.”, Rubin brushed me off. Molly’s body was transported to a funeral home outside Cleveland, where the LaRues found her on a mat, covered with a sheet. The families grieved. Glenda Hood climbed Cove Mountain on the first Mother’s Day after the murders. As I exchanged handshakes with Clevis and Nalgene, I told them that I felt like we’d already met. The next morning, we all took a two-mile detour to a restaurant for the hiker’s special: six pancakes, four pieces of sausage, coffee, and juice for $5. The next day, I sweated four steep and rocky miles up Cove Mountain to the Thelma Marks shelter. A 38-year-old man has been charged in the slayings of two young hikers on the Appalachian Trial. Still, those rooms had mattresses. “Paul, I am here today to offer forgiveness for what you have done,” he told his daughter’s killer—at which point, he says, Crews locked eyes with him and held the connection. That night, detectives who’d never set foot on the trail struggled for three hours to reach Thelma Marks. “I want to spend my time caring about things my daughter cared about. Our rendezvous came on Friday, July 20, at the Jeffers Brook shelter near Glencliff, New Hampshire, after we’d crossed an above-tree-line peak in a crashing thunderstorm. (Photo: Courtesy of Glenda Hood), They ventured onto the AT, as many do, at an unsettled juncture in their lives: they’d learned that, come May, they’d be laid off, and a six-month hike seemed a good way to decide what to do next. The women talked often. “That’s when Molly’s voice would come up and tell me, ‘If you ever let my death be an excuse for anything happening to the trail, I’ll never forgive you.’, “Mol was where she wanted to be, doing what she wanted to do, caring about what she wanted to care about, having fun, and meeting and enjoying so many people,” he says. What he did to them left wounds that didn’t close as neatly as that fading rectangle in the forest floor. Our conversation was halted by the approach of a short, bearded man in a baggy black suit and large-brimmed hat, staggering under a pack that towered high over his head. With the law closing in, his brother gave him a lift into the country, and he took off running. Geoff had called from there three days before. And now, late on the afternoon of September 11, 1990, he found his way to the Appalachian Trail. “To die doing something you love is not the worst thing in this life. He has a pair of teenage sons now. Maybe it was the sheer savagery of the act. I have missed seeing them share their lives together. Help fund our award-winning journalism with a contribution today. This was the last photo taken of the couple before they were murdered on Cove Mountain by a wanted drifter named Paul David Crews. Granola and I reunited a couple of days later. Originally ordered to die by lethal injection, Crews is serving two life sentences in state prison without parole for murdering the couple. By the time I reached central Pennsylvania, they trailed me by eight days. Background. From there they faced an easy two miles of ridgetop to Thelma Marks—which waited, dark and droopy, its back to the AT, at the bottom of a steep 500-foot side trail. Well, if you think it’s fine, why have I heard it’s a bad pack? As Molly predicted in one log entry: “If you’re behind us you will pass us.”. With the sun setting, he yanked six Old Milwaukee tallboys from his pack and chugged them in quick succession. Three came at trailside shelters. “We kept getting comments like, ‘Well, do you feel the trail is too dangerous to use?’ and ‘Should it be shut down?’ ” Jim says. Police arrived to find food and camping gear strewn about the shelter. Officials investigate the scene of a double murder on the Appalachian Trail near Duncannon in September 1990. Geoff was laid to rest near his home in Tennessee, in a plot overlooking Signal Mountain. Black flies kamikazed into my eyes and mouth. He shot and killed Geoffrey Hood and raped, tortured and stabbed to death Hood's girlfriend Molly LaRue at Cove Mountain near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. For years she would be haunted by that moment, by “tremendous guilt over the fact that I had seen him, and that I had sensed an evil aura coming off him. There are also many other hazards and dangers of thru-hiking: rattlesnakes, dehydration, hypothermia, fractures, strains, to name a few. The clearing was dead quiet. 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