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Nov 21, 2023 · Nearly 30 Years Later, Lesbian Couple's Murder in National Park Remains Unsolved. Julianne "Julie" Williams and Laura "Lollie" Winans' killer is still unidentified after their 1996 slayings in ...
Jun 4, 2021 · The bodies of 24 year old, Julianne “Julie” Williams and 26 year old, Laura “Lollie” Winans were found by Park Rangers on June 1st, 1996, after Lollie’s dog – Taj, was located ...
Jun 1, 2021 · The bodies of 24 year old, Julianne “Julie” Williams and 26 year old, Laura “Lollie” Winans were found by Park Rangers on June 1st, 1996, after Lollie’s dog—Taj, was located wandering ...
May 16, 2013 · She was the only woman on Georgia's death row. She was convicted in a February 1997 murder plot that targeted her husband in suburban Atlanta. Women make up fewer than 2% of the inmates sentenced ...
- A Double Murder in Shenandoah National Park
- Instead, That Was The Day That Park Rangers Found Her body.
- The Challenges of Solving Crimes in National Parks
- A Suspect Emerges
- Still Waiting For Answers
On Sunday May 19, 1996, Julie Williams and Lollie Winans embarked on a backpacking trip in Shenandoah National Park with their golden retriever, Taj. Julie, 24, of St. Cloud, Minnesota and Lollie, 26, of Unity, Maine, pitched their tent off of one of Shenandoah National Park’s horse trails. They chose a peaceful spot next to a mountain stream, whic...
On May 31, 1996, Thomas Williams, Julie’s father, reported his daughter missing. Park Rangers started a search and located Julie and Lollie’s car just north of Skyland Lodge. “We started doing hasty searches to cover all of those trail corridors in that general area to see if we could locate them,” explains Bridget Bohnet, Deputy Chief Ranger at Sh...
Scroll through the National ParkService’s list of cold cases and you’ll find that it’s easy to disappear in the woods. There are a number of reasons that people go missing, most of which are attributed to accidental falls or wrong turns. Statistically, when it comes to crime, public lands are incredibly safe. In fact, Julie and Lollie’s murders wer...
Shenandoah’s Skyline Driveis a popular place for a bike ride and in July 1997, that’s what Yvonne Malbasha, a tourist from Canada, had come to do. As she pedaled the mountainous road, admiring the Blue Ridge views, Malbasha was forced off the road and off her bike by a man driving a truck. He screamed sexual profanities at her as he stepped from hi...
Last year, around the twentieth anniversary of Julie and Lollie’s murders, the FBI circulated a press release and updated posters. “The case remains an open and active investigation,” says Dee Rybiski of the FBI. “It’s our hope that any continued coverage of the girls’ murders will one day generate that one crucial piece of information that may bri...
Veronica Gonzales. Along with her husband Ivan, Gonzales was convicted of the 1995 scalding death of her 4-year-old niece, Genevieve Rojas. She was convicted of first-degree murder with special circumstances of torture and mayhem. They are the first married couple in California on death row for the same crime.
Here is a look at the 184 inmates currently on Texas' death row. Texas, which reinstated the death penalty in 1976, has the most active execution chamber in the nation. On average, these inmates have spent 18 years, 4 months on death row. Though 12 percent of the state's residents are black, 45 percent of death row inmates are.
