In the spring of 1981, Laura Susan Ramsay, a 27-year-old female social worker from Maine, embarked on a hiking expedition along the Appalachian Trail with her fellow social worker, Robert Mountford Jr., also 27. Their journey, intended to raise funds for a school for children with developmental challenges, took a tragic turn in the serene wilderness near Pearisburg, Virginia. It was here they encountered Randall Lee Smith, a local man from Pearisburg.
In May 1981, within the supposed tran
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