Delia D'Ambra

They were then relocated to less desirable parts of Kenya and Tanzania to live.

Despite this dark history, the tribe has still clung to its deeply rooted cultural traditions and practices.

The people take pride in their land and all of the things that make it attractive to international tourists.

Visitors to the reserve can visit the tribe's village and learn about their rich culture.

The word Mara in the reserve's name is the tribe's word for spotted or spotted land and refers to the patches of acacia trees and shrubbery that are scattered throughout it.

And similar to that aspect of the landscape was the patchwork investigation into the death of a young British wildlife photographer in September 1988.

Information about what happened to Julie Ward while visiting Kenya seems to be dotted over the pages of time.

Little lies and little truths just sprinkled between various sources.

What I hope to do is wade through all of that, but come out the other side with something to hold on to.

This is Park Predators.

On Friday, September 9th, 1988, a man named Doug Morey was at his home in Nairobi, Kenya, when he noticed that Julie Ward, a 28-year-old woman he'd been renting a cottage to on his property, wasn't around.

His next door neighbors, an older couple named Natasha and Paul Weld Dixon, had also observed the same thing.

Julie was nowhere to be found.

The Weld Dixons knew that was kind of odd because they'd made plans with Julie to have her over for dinner that night and then make sure she made it to the airport the following day to catch a flight home to England.

You see, Julie had been on a long trip to and in Africa, traveling to different areas to take photos of wildlife, but especially herds of wildebeests as they made their annual migration from Tanzania's Serengeti National Park into Kenya's Masai Mara Reserve.

But Doug, Natasha, and Paul knew that Julie was supposed to be back in the city by September 9th.

They'd all been expecting her to arrive earlier in the week, but she hadn't.

At one point, the Well Dixons even called several hospitals and police stations to see if maybe Julie had gotten into a car accident or something.

But there were no reports that she had.

Doug had also utilized some of his resources, too.