that the wife had been murdered in the pisgah national forest. dennis murphy (voiceover): that detective was working an unsolved case that had cops in north carolina bewildered. david mahoney, a sheriff of transylvania county, a beautiful place with an ominous name that has nothing to do with fangs dripping blood. we have some wonderful attractions here. all of those things, along with the slower pace of life, is what brings folks and keeps folks here. dennis murphy (voiceover): folks like john and irene bryant, who, after raising a family, retired here, far from the brutal winters of upstate new york and close to the hiking trails they loved. holly bryant is the youngest of their four children. they love the outdoors. when they were first married, they used to go out hiking in the mountains. they would take us hiking. and as they got older, they d take the grandchildren out hiking, too. dennis murphy (voiceover): the bryants had a lifetime of outdoors experience, had hiked all over th