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The Stranger in the Shelter

By Earl Swift · Outside · November 2018

The Stranger in the Shelter

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"Told here in full for the first time, this is the horrifying story of the first murder on the Appalachian Trail, the kidnapping that followed, and how one woman learned to survive."

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