Delia D'Ambra

It's located on the eastern portion of the state's panhandle and is heralded as a great place to live, especially if you're raising a family.

Some of the better-known attractions of the region are Black Magic Canyon, which has unique volcanic lava sculptures, and the Mammoth Cave, which features cave drawings from previous generations of visitors and residents.

The second case I'm going to cover today took place near a wildlife bayou in eastern Texas known as Cow Bayou.

According to the Texas State Historical Association, this natural area was historically regarded as a source of water for irrigation canals that fed area rice farms.

In the early 20th century, it was used a lot to transport barges up and down large swaths of eastern Texas.

But in 1963, a Texas game warden enforcing anti-poaching laws there lost his life in a crime that profoundly rocked residents and outdoor recreationalists.

If you take one thing from today's episode, let it be this.

You never know what someone is capable of when they're cornered.

For some, the act of murder is as instinctual as a bird taking flight.

This is Park Predators.

On Tuesday evening, August 28th, 1934, Miss Alma Teed was at home in Mullen, Idaho with her sons, nervously waiting for her husband to walk through their front door.

39-year-old Ellsworth was the deputy game warden of Shoshone County, and he'd left around 7.30 that morning to investigate some recent reports of people harvesting deer out of season in an area in the southern part of the county known as Boulder Gulch.

But lunchtime had passed, and then dinnertime, and Ellsworth had not come home.

When the couple had last spoken, he'd told Alma that he planned to return to town by 2 p.m.

to attend the funeral of a teenage boy from Mullen who'd passed away recently.

But Ellsworth failed to make that service despite the fact that his car, a Model A Ford Coupe, had been found later in the day near Mountain View Cemetery in Boulder Gulch.

It's not super clear from the source material whether this cemetery was where the teenage boy's funeral was gonna be, but additional reporting by the Coeur d'Alene Press explained that where Ellsworth's car was found was actually at a trailhead that led further into the hills.

So basically a convenient access point to the landscape.

When the car was discovered, it was locked and his lunch and coat were still inside.

It kind of looked like a scuffle or something had occurred at the spot, but no one really knew what to make of the situation.