Crime Off The Grid
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The hosts, Tara and Nancy, bring over 30 years of experience each working as law enforcement rangers in National Parks and National Forests (in Nancy's case). Our guests are rangers, investigators, prosecutors, victim specialists, and other first responders who have dedicated their careers to justice and safety in places off the grid.
Join the hosts as they discuss cases, listen to Ranger Tales; real rangers telling real stories that you just can't make up, and...report news and commentary from wild places from the Crime Off the Grid Newsroom!
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Crime Off the Grid News Feb 2026
Top stories in this episode: A man pled guilty to assaulting rangers with his vehicle in Glen Canyon NRA, a manhunt ensued in the Black Hills of South Dakota, a reckless driver with illegal weapons…
Yellowstone NP: Stalked Across the Lines
We return to Yellowstone National Park, where a park employee seeks help after being stalked and threatened by her ex-boyfriend. What begins as a report quickly escalates into an assault and a…
Left for Dead in Chiricahua
On an ordinary workday at Chiricahua National Monument, a routine maintenance assignment turns into a life-or-death crime. When a park employee is found brutally injured in a remote restroom and her…
Glacier National Park; A Grizzly Attack on the Edge
Park Ranger Gary Moses shares the story of a father and daughter's hike in Glacier National Park that becomes a hike from hell when a bear attacks the two of them. Ranger Gary responds as the medic…
Ranger Tales: Park Ranger John
Park Ranger John is a 20 year veteran as a park ranger in the Washington State Park system. He joins Tara and Nancy and shares some funny stories (the kind you can't make up) from his time as a…
Great Smoky Mountains National Park; Fugitive Meets Rangers
In June 2004, a 22-year-old college student was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, who had been stalking her for months. The suspect fled the state and triggered a multi-agency manhunt that stretched…
Crime Off the Grid News January 2026
From the newsroom this episode… a body from a murder was dumped in a popular southern National Park, 2 bodies were discovered by rangers in a Utah National Park, a mass murder attack on a popular ski…
Tonto National Forest; The Mount Ord Murders
In this episode, Tara and Nancy examine the brutal murders of two Arizona teenagers who set out on what was supposed to be a simple Memorial Day camping trip and never returned.The two disappeared…
Gold, Greed, and the Wilderness: The Forrest Fenn Treasure Hunt
A hidden treasure. A cryptic poem. And a decade-long search that pulled thousands of people deep into the wilderness—sometimes with fatal consequences. Tara and Nancy unravel the full story of the…
From the Ranger Vault-Yosemite-Cracks in the Granite; Unveiling a Predator
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…
From the Ranger Vault: Pictured Rocks Nat'l Lakeshore; Death Over Divorce
A woman was found dead below a 140-foot cliff at Miner’s Castle in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore after her husband reported that she had fallen while he was away using the restroom. What…
From the Ranger Vault; Shenandoah NP; The Joker's Demise
Bringing this one out from the Ranger Vault! This is one of our favorite early episodes and it was Nancy's debut as a "guest" host! A brutal crime was committed at Ft Eustis Military base in…
The Wasatch National Forest: Nightmare on the Mountain
A Utah father’s “family hike” up the steep and strenuous Broads Fork Trail in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest turned into a horrific, life-threatening ordeal for his three young children when…
The Predator of Wolf Lodge Bay: Inside the Groene Family Case
In May 2005, a quiet corner of Wolf Lodge Bay near Lake Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, became the center of one of the most disturbing true crime cases in Pacific Northwest history. When a neighbor discovered…
White Mountains National Forest; A Grim Discovery on Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day, 2001: deep in the quiet forests of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, searchers made a grim discovery — the body of 52-year-old Canadian hiker who had vanished after setting out for a…
Sequoia and Kings Canyon NP; Drunk Gone Wild Under the Giant Trees
In the shadow of the world’s largest trees, a midnight encounter between park rangers and an intoxicated camper spirals into a chaotic and violent confrontation. What begins as a routine DUI…
Big Bend National Park; A Cold Trail to Mexico
Big Bend National Park is a place of vast beauty and haunting isolation—where the desert meets the Rio Grande and desolation and silence stretches for miles. But in February 2022, that silence was…
Crime Off the Grid Newsroom October, 2025
In the news: an arrest is made in the case of 2 teens found dead in an Arizona National Forest; Convictions for illegal BASE jumping in Yosemite; Hikers take cover as shots fly over their heads in a…
Yosemite National Park; A Canyon's Curse
In Yosemite National Park, Tenaya Canyon is known as both stunning and cursed. Legend says Chief Tenaya, the last leader of the Ahwahneechee, placed a curse on the land after his people’s…
Wrangell-St Elias National Park; Frozen Spirits of Kennicott Mine
Deep in Alaska’s Wrangell–St. Elias National Park, the abandoned Kennicott Mines stand as a ghost town frozen in time. Once a thriving copper operation, it now draws visitors for another reason — the…
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