PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • April 10, 2022
Maine author probes 1996 murders of hiking couple in ‘Trailed’
Maine journalist Kathryn Miles's new book examines a 1996 unsolved double murder. One of the victims was a student at Unity College. Six years ago, she was assigned to do a story for Outside magazine about the unsolved murder of two women killed while hiking in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park in 1996. The hook for the story was that the FBI had just put out a call for leads that would help solve the murders of Laura “Lollie” Winans, 26, a student at Maine’s Unity College, and her girlfriend, Julianne Williams, 24. They had been bound and gagged and their throats were slashed. Miles’ latest book, “Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders” goes on sale May 3. Miles says the FBI has not used the full power of DNA testing technologies now available to see if Richard Evonitz, a serial killer who died by suicide in 2002, could be linked to the murders.