A former national park worker is on the run from the police

On the tip of June, authorities at Yosemite National Park started a search for for 38-yr-feeble Nathan Baptista. The family of the feeble nationwide park employee alerted the police that he had gone missing attain the park on June 27.

The Mariposa Sheriff's Department started a two-day search spirited extra than one branches overseeing search and rescue, helicopter enhance, and off-motorway vehicle searches.

In an change posted on Fb on July 1, the Mariposa County Sheriff's Place of work's stated that a case on the foundation in most cases known as an "At Menace Lacking Particular person" was later modified to 1 spirited a fugitive fleeing authorities.

It seems investigators came at some level of that Baptista confronted federal charges of aggravated sexual abuse of a fellow Yosemite Hospitality employee that he met on May 31, 2024.

Small print from the case inform that Baptista allegedly tried strangling the girl to fabricate the rape.

"This case is the fabricated from an investigation by the National Park Provider," the press liberate from June 2024 reads. "[...] If convicted, Baptista faces a most statutory penalty of life in jail and a $250,000 fair."

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'An absconding fugitive from federal laws enforcement no longer within the county'

"As of now we now feel assured that this case has shifted from an 'At Menace Lacking Particular person' to an absconding fugitive from federal laws enforcement who will not be any longer in Mariposa County," the Mariposa Sheriff's Place of work wrote after discovering the costs.

"Surveillance footage has confirmed that his truck and dirt bike had been viewed within the Fresno space."

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Both Baptista and his alleged victims had been employed by Yosemite Hospitality, a subsidiary of the Aramark Company which oversees lodging and dining at nationwide parks, whereas the National Park Provider (NPS) conducted the investigation that ended in the preliminary charges.

Baptista was final seen riding a white Chevrolet truck with a California license plate and riding a white and blue bike within the space around the park.

Anybody with files on the case has been asked to realize forward.

'Please contact the laws enforcement jurisdiction closest to you'

"Nathan Baptista on the 2d has an lively federal warrant issued by the U.S. Marshalls Place of work for violation of probation, with the usual charge being sexual assault," Mariposa County Sheriff's Place of work wrote extra. "If you happen to accept as true with any files on the whereabouts of Nathan Baptista, please contact the laws enforcement jurisdiction closest to you."

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In the summertime of 2024, FBI investigators frail DNA evidence to title a 77-yr-feeble Cleveland man named Walter Leo Jackson, Sr. because the suspect in joint murders of 26-yr-feeble Laura Winans and 24-yr-feeble Julianne Williams at Shenandoah National Park in 1996.

Jackson, Sr. was a serial rapist who was at final convicted and died in jail in 2018 whereas serving a sentence for numerous crimes.

The horrific destroy had remained unsolved for decades — to this level, it is in most cases in most cases known as one in every of the worst crimes ever committed in a nationwide park.

Evidence at final unveiled by the lab showed that Jackson, Sr. likely pulled Winans and Williams into a van and then modified the license plates to hide his tracks from authorities.

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