Plot Synopsis

WILD CRIME is a crime docuseries that centers on the U.S. National Park System's special agents, who are responsible for investigating crimes that occur on 85 million acres of public land. Tackling a new case each season, the team leads investigations as they seek to bring law and order to some of America's most rugged and remote landscapes.

The first installment centers on the murder of Toni Henthorn in Rocky Mountain National Park and the investigation into her husband, Harold Henthorn, through the eyes of National Park Service Special Agent Beth Shott and rangers. Over the course of four one-hour episodes, Season 1 dives into the couple's troubling relationship dynamic. While Toni and Harold are on a romantic anniversary getaway to Rocky Mountain National Park, Toni suspiciously falls to her death off of a remote cliff, and Shott investigates what may be more than an accident. The investigation into Toni's murder also leads agent Shott to reexamine the violent and mysterious death of Harold's first wife, Lynn, 17 years earlier. In the middle of it all is a little girl named Haley, Toni and Harold's daughter, whose life could hang in the balance. The clock ticks for investigators to put the pieces of this puzzle together. The four-episode first season features interviews with Special Agent Shott, fellow ISB special agents and NPS rangers, FBI agent Jonny Grusing, assistant United States attorneys Valeria Spencer and Suneeta Hazra, as well as family and friends of the Henthorns, including Toni's father Bob Bertolet, Toni's brother Todd Bertolet, and experts who've covered the case including author Caleb Hannan. The first episode dropped on Tuesday, September 28, 2021 on Hulu, with a new episode debuting each day through Friday, October 4.



Season 2 of WILD CRIME debuted with two episodes on Monday, October 24, 2022 on Hulu. A new episode dropped each day for the next two days. Episodes include:

"A Gruesome Discovery" (Monday, October 24, 2022): In 1983, visitors to Yosemite National Park found a decaying human hand in Summit Meadow. Investigators Don Coelho and Kim Tucker work for months but find no clues, no missing person reports or other remains. Then suddenly, they learn Henry Lee Lucas, a Texas serial killer, is saying he killed victims in a California national park. As Lucas claims more and more murders, Don and Kim begin looking at him for their case and prepare to meet and interview Lucas in person.

"A Suspect?" (Monday, October 24, 2022): Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas tells Don and Kim he strangled a female hitchhiker in Yosemite. Details appear to match the death in Summit Meadow, and they find evidence Lucas described. But after months with no progress on the investigation, Kim is reassigned, and with no new leads, the case grows cold. Don eventually takes a new job, and with no victim identity or new evidence, Lucas won't be prosecuted. Lucas had confessed to hundreds of murders, but then scores of his confessions were proven false, adding more doubt. Kim moves on and has twins, a boy and a girl. With no leads, the Summit Meadow case is at a standstill.

"The Skull" (Tuesday, October 25, 2022): Four years after the Summit Meadow case went cold, hikers found a human skull. There's no proof it's related to the hand discovered earlier, but it allows for a facial reconstruction that shows what Jane Doe may have looked like. But that generates no leads. Decades pass; Kim Tucker's son Cullen is now an investigator and is assigned the case. Using new DNA science after almost 40 years, Jane Doe is finally identified! Now Cullen wonders how did she end up dead in Yosemite -- and given it was likely murder, who did it?

"Answers" (Wednesday, October 26, 2022): We meet Jane Doe's childhood friends and find out about her early life. After her brother's suicide, she began a spiritual quest and lived near Yosemite in a so-called cult. There she may have crossed paths with two other men who may have been involved in her death. Investigators name their most likely perpetrator.



WILD CRIME: BLOOD MOUNTAIN, the third season of the series, is a four-part documentary that follows the case of experienced hiker Meredith Emerson, who along with her dog, vanished without a trace on Blood Mountain in Georgia, leading authorities to begin a massive search-and-rescue operation. When two murdered hikers in other national forests across the southeast are discovered, the question is posed: Is Emerson just another lost hiker -- or is something more sinister behind her disappearance? A press released called WILD CRIME: BLOOD MOUNTAIN the third season of WILD CRIME, but Hulu released the four episodes as a separate series. All four installments of WILD CRIME: BLOOD MOUNTAIN dropped on Thursday, November 30, 2023 on Hulu.
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Season 4 of WILD CRIME, entitled WILD CRIME: ELEVEN SKULLS, is a four-part story that delves into the haunting 2012 disappearance of Samantha Koenig, an 18-year-old Anchorage barista last seen leaving her place of work with an unknown man on a dark winter night. The search for Koenig leads FBI and police from Alaska's wilderness to the remote forests of Washington's Olympic National Park, all the way to rural Vermont, exposing a killer's terrifying trail of crimes. As investigators follow the twisted clues of this case, they uncover the identity of Israel Keyes, a psychopathic serial killer with a hidden life of violence and a dark path he forged while growing up off the grid. Ultimately, a search of Keyes' prison cell reveals what investigators believe to be the chilling truth. All four episodes of WILD CRIME: ELEVEN SKULLS dropped on Thursday, December 5, 2024 on Hulu.