I had no idea that, eight years earlier, a drifter and wanted man named Paul David Crews had shot to death twenty-six-year-old thru-hiker Geoff Hood, then raped and fatally stabbed Hood’s girlfriend and hiking partner, twenty-five-year-old Molly LaRue. Crews had then stolen their gear and left both hikers to bleed to death where I now sat eating my snack.
