In 1990, a double murder stunned hikers. A new memoir explores the aftermath.
Published on July 9, 2026 06:05 am new York Times Best-selling author Earl Swift is a legend among adventure journalists. He made his mark covering crime in the cocaine-fueled Wild West of 1980s Anchorage, Alaska. While employed at a coastal Virginia newspaper in the 1990s, he wrote an in-depth series about an Appalachian Trail thru-hike,