When a 4-year-old girl vanishes from a family picnic in a popular Montana recreation space, authorities stop at nothing to try and find her. Then, years into the investigation, law enforcement gets the break they’ve been waiting for. Someone takes credit for the abduction.If you have any information regarding the abduction of Nyleen Marshall please contact the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office at (406) 225-4075 or visit their website at https://www.jeffersoncountysheriffmt.gov.You can also contact the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at (800) 843-5678 or visit their website at www.missingkids.org/home.View source material and photos for this episode at: parkpredators.com/the-picnic Park Predators is an audiochuck production. Connect with us on social media:Instagram: @parkpredators | @audiochuckTwitter: @ParkPredators | @audiochuckFacebook: /ParkPredators | /audiochuckllcTikTok: @audiochuck
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Hi, park enthusiasts. I'm your host, Delia D'Ambra. And the story I'm going to tell you about today is a mystery that has confounded law enforcement for more than 40 years. And it's a case that online sleuths have been obsessing over, I feel like, for as long as the internet has been around. It's a missing persons case from the early 1980s that has quite a few twists and turns.
You can almost hear the goat of true crime himself, Robert Stack, narrating the details. And speaking of Robert, Unsolved Mysteries way back in the day did a segment about this case. It's one of the sources I used for this episode.
But forget TV programs, news clippings, and anniversary specials for just a second, and rewind with me all the way back to late June 1983 in Helena Lewis and Clark National Forest in Montana. Because understanding where this story takes place, I think, is critical to hopefully one day figuring out what happened. According to the U.S.
Department of Agriculture Forest Services website, the National Forest is divided into two parts by the Continental Divide and spans 2.8 million acres across north-central Montana. According to the National Forest Foundation's website, the forest was only known as Helena National Forest in 1983.
In 2015, it merged with the Lewis and Clark National Forest and is now called Helena Lewis and Clark National Forest. From 1880 until 1940, there was a massive mining boom in the mountainous regions of the forest. And that activity, unfortunately, left a lot of inactive mines and abandoned shafts behind.
Those ruins still remain in places today and pose a serious risk to visitors because some of them are unstable and contain large volumes of heavy metal mining waste.
The area gets the latter part of its name from the renowned military explorers Captain Meriwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark, who ventured into what was in 1804 a vast western territory in the United States known as the Louisiana Purchase. Lewis and Clark's journey encompassed nearly 8,000 miles from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean and back.
During their trailblazing, they faced many challenges, unforeseen obstacles, and mortal threats. And the same could be said about the investigation into the disappearance of Nyleen Marshall, a four-year-old girl who vanished from the forest in seemingly the blink of an eye while at a family outing.
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