Robert Mountford

Death by Force

Robert Tatton Mountford, Jr., a 27-year-old social worker from Ellsworth, Maine, was tragically murdered on May 20, 1981, while hiking the Appalachian Trail near Pearisburg, Virginia. Mountford and his companion, Laura Susan Ramsay, were on a mission to raise funds for a school for mentally retarded children in Maine. The pair had been hiking and camping along the trail when they were brutally attacked. Ramsay was stabbed more than a dozen times, while Mountford was shot three times in the head. ...Read More