A Killer Returns to the Appalachian Trail a True Crime Story
A killer is allowed to return to the same trail that he killed 2 victims on before, free to attack again.
When some killers kill, we sit back and wonder how this happened. They seemed so normal. This wasn’t the case with Randall Lee Smith or Lyin’ Randall as the locals had taken to calling him.
Randall was born in 1954, and within six months of his birth, his parents had divorced. His mother Loretta Smith raised the boy on her own after that.
For some reason that Loretta decided to keep to herself. She dressed the boy in girl’s clothing for the first few years of his life. There is no evidence that this caused her marriage to end, or for the boy to grow up being such a loner and killer. But it does make you wonder?
Throughout his childhood, and his school years. Randall was known for many things, telling tall tales — which is how he got his nickname, and for being strange. And for never being involved in anything to do with others. It seemed his retreat from life was the woods next to his home he and his mother shared in Pearisburg, Virginia. He would spend days out on the Appalachian Trail and always alone.
In the Spring of 1981, Randall was out on one of his journeys into the woods, hiking the Appalachian Trail. Unfortunately for other…
