Could you camp in the woods?
I don’t think you will once you hear about this case.
Doug and Rozina Anderson a young married couple went to the woods in the late 80s in California to camp to celebrate his wife’s birthday.
But they couldn’t have imagined that that would be their first mistake.
When they were fishing during their trip the wife felt a nagging suspisicion they weren’t alone and were in some sort of danger.
But Doug quickly dismissed her ,and put it down to paranoia.
So instead of going home they chose to stay set camp and sleep in the maze-like woods.
That would ultimately prove to be their fatal mistake.
As they say always trust your gut feeling Rozina was right a man called John William Kelley was methodically watching their every moment since he came across them in the woods by pure chance.
And what he would put them through would even make the movie Jeepers Creeper seem like a chick flick.
He snuck into their camper van while they were out trekking, and cleverly didn’t disturb the scene, but emptied the bullets in the couple’s gun.
Sadly luring the couple into a false sense of security.
Later that night when they were deep asleep he suddenly repeatedly banged on their van menacingly ordering them out.
Having no other option they complied with the stranger’s demand.
He ordered the husband to strip and with the realization of knowing he was about to be executed ,he passionately uttered to his hyperventilated wife that he loved her, then he was blasted to death.
Rozina’s nightmare just began, she was subjected to a brutal rape, but determined to stay alive she fought her assailant to the bitter end, and eventually got hold of her gun during the scuffle, but sadly when she fired at him she realised there was no bullets. Sadly she could never have known the killer previously emptied the gun that same day,he then smirked,and as she begged for mercy her hysterics fell on deaf ears, and he cold shot her to death.
Their bodies were discovered by campers the next day ,but sadly the case remained unsolved until the same killer decades later struck again, and due to fear of the death penalty he agreed to confess to the murders of the innocent couple.
The other chilling twist was the killer was school friends with detective of the original case.
What I urge people always trust your gut instinct,and always keep family,friends or neighbours up to date of your travels.
What’s sad the woods has snakes,but there also is other predators in human form hiding in plain sight.
I always wished that the couple celebrated the birthday festivities in a posh hotel or camped out in their garden.
This truly is a case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time.