September 11, 1990 was the day Paul Crew visited an East Berlin, Pennsylvania Library and viewed a map of the Appalachian Trail. Two days later he was near the trail asking hikers how to get to the nearest trail head. That day he raped and murdered Molly LaRue, and shot her hiking partner Geoffrey Hood, killing him in a shelter along the Appalachian Trail during their thru hike. Hood was shot three times with a revolver and then LaRue was bound, raped, and then stabbed in the neck. Crew covered their bodies in the shelter with their sleeping bags and stole their belongings. He was spotted by other hikers as he headed south on the trail. The hikers on the trail noticed that the belongings he was carrying where Hoods and LaRue. A week later Paul Crew was arrested. His trial for these murders concluded with sentencing him the death penalty by lethal injection. After years of his appealing the county can no longer fight his appeals due to lack of funding. He will be resentenced today and more then likely be given two life sentences.
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