Crime Off The Grid

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 out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!!   Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and  (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW : We would love yo...

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 podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! (click on the MERCH button on our website) Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cri...

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 out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!!   Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and  (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW : We would love your support so we can keep the episodes com...

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 eradicating an illicit grow in Colorado. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!!   Check us out on In...

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://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and  (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW: We would love...

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 Merch!!   Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and  (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW: We would love your support so we can keep the episodes co...

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, check out  https://crimeoffthegrid.com/  Also...We've Got Merch!!    Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and  (1) Facebook SUPPORT...

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...We've Got Merch!!    Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and  (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW: We would love your support so we can keep the episode...

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://crimeoffthegrid.com/  Also...We've Got Merch!!    Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and  (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW: We would love your support so...

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  https://crimeoffthegrid.com/  Also...We've Got Merch!!    Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and  (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW: We w...

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 information about the podcast, check out  https://crimeoffthegrid.com/  Also...We've Got Merch!!    Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcas...

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://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!!    Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and  (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW: We would love yo...

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!!    Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and  (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW: We would love your support so we can keep the episodes coming! https://www.buy...

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 newly formed Audubon Society and President Theodore Roosevelt hired it's first game warden, no one could have predicted that more than birds would die. For mor...

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, freedom, and respect, However... Nancy and Tara share the stories of law enforcement and first responders who deal with the impacts and antics of this nomadic s...

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  https://crimeoffthegrid.com/  Also...We've Got Merch!!    Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and  (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW: We...

Two self-proclaimed mountain men kidnap a young woman in hopes to make her a bride. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!! Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and  (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW: We would love your support so we can keep the episodes coming! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/cotg Sou...

A predator works his way into the camp of  two social workers on the AP Trail killing them both.  After his early release from prison, he invites himself to dinner with two fishermen just off the AP Trail and mayhem ensues. For more information about the podcast, check out  https://crimeoffthegrid.com/  Also...We've Got Merch!!    Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegrid...

Far in the backcountry during a blizzard, a ranger recounts a tragic incident which will serve as a deadly cautionary tale. For more information about the podcast, check out  https://crimeoffthegrid.com/  Also...We've Got Merch!!    Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and  (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW: We would love your support so we can keep the episodes...

Two friends who shared a cell in jail have a fateful meeting that ended deep in the national forest. For more information about the podcast, check out  https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!!    Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and  (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW: We would love your support so we can keep the episodes coming! https://www.buym...

A couple  of Good Samaritans are in the Talladega National Forest looking for waterfalls when they stop to help a stranded motorist.  Then the unthinkable happens. For more information about the podcast, check out  https://crimeoffthegrid.com/  Also...We've Got Merch!!    Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and  (1) Facebook SUPPORT THE SHOW: We would love y...

Andrea Lankford, former National Park Ranger and author of Trail of the Lost; The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail,  shares how she and others dedicated years to finding  the “PCT missing. “ Besides encountering mother nature's hazards, they used sleuths, searchers, PCT hikers, and Facebook to help bring a serial predator a lot closer to justice. For mo...

A mysterious caller in the wee hours of the morning sent National Park Service Rangers, Special Agents, and the Cherokee Indian PD to a gruesome discovery in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Oops...at the time of this recording, there was a blizzard on Tara's side of the Divide which caused some very mild glitching due to the internet and latency. Our apologies, but we promise, you won't m...

Listen to my fun and heartwarming discussion with retired National Park Service Law Enforcement Ranger, John Goodwin, author of the book Echoes of the Badge: Stories From a National Park Service Career.  His book is a source of inspiration and enlightenment showcasing tales of courage, resilience, and unwavering dedication. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid....

A celebrity of the rock climbing world may be a violent, serial predator.  A survey posted in several outdoor magazines and the special agents of the National Park Service put together a case that showed  just because you can climb so high, doesn't mean you wont go down HARD. For more information about the podcast, check out https://crimeoffthegrid.com/ Also...We've Got Merch!!   Check us out on I...