About this episode

This episode explores a murder mystery encountered by two hikers in Colorado.

On Saturday May 8, 2021, hikers Libby Mitchell and Stacey Rose Anderson met on the Deer Mountain Trail in the Rocky Mountain national park in Colorado. They were before strangers before this morning, but they soon realized they had something in common.  Both of their partners had just abandoned them on the trail. So as they're hiking back to the trailhead together, they see yet another solo woman hiker, and Libby makes a dark joke. "Oh look, another Alpine Divorce." But as they crept closer to this single woman, they realized she wasn't moving. Her limbs appeared twisted. Her shoes were scattered about.  And was that blood? What happened next would uncover a murder, as well as an offender who kept getting away with the worst crimes imaginable. This is Crime Adjacent episode 584: Alpine Divorce: Murder on the Trail, told live in Phoenix during our tour. OK, profilers. Can you solve an unsolvable murder? Join host and serial killer survivor Chase Patrick live on stage for Crime Adjacent, the world’s biggest true crime podcast. Every week, at shows across the country, Chase reopens the most haunting, enduring mysteries from the grim underbelly of American true crime and…

People in this episode

Host: Chase Patrick

Topics covered

• murder
• hiking
• true crime
• mystery
• psychological thriller

Keywords

• murder
• hiking
• Alpine Divorce
• true crime
• Rocky Mountain

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Rocky Mountain national park, Deer Mountain Trail

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