Picture: Supplied. Source:Supplied When interviewing locals for the third episode of Serial, presenter Sarah Koenig was told that: if youre digging in Leakin Park to bury your body, youre going to find somebodys elses.

Just what is it about Leakin Park that attracts murderers Caroline Zielinski News Corp Australia Network December 11, 2014 6:02am Video Image Serial, a wildly popular podcast about a 15-year-old murder case has led to another appeal for the man charged with the crime.

Picture: serialpodcast.org Source:Supplied THEY were all under 10, and their mutilated bodies were found in an overgrown section of Baltimores Leakin Park in April, 1968.

Larry, 9, and Matt Jefferson, 5, Louis Hill, 10, and 10-year-old Lester Watson were murdered by janitor Reginald Vernon Oates, 18, who was found carrying a bag containing the genitalia of three of his young victims.

When police examined the bodies, they also found that one boy had been decapitated, his little hands cut off, and another had had his throat cut.

Oates was committed to a mental institution in 1968, where he has been since.

He continues to petition the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for release.

Reginald Vernon Oates was committed to a mental facility in 1968 after murdering and mutilating four little boys.

Source:Supplied The four little boys were the second group of bodies found in what has become known as a mass dumping ground of murdered victims in the US state of Maryland.

To the naked eye, Baltimores Leakin Park which adjoins Gwynns Falls Park is a 485-hectare expanse of greenery, shadowed by romantic woodland and a natural forest largely untouched by humans.

Families visit the park to ride steam engines and ponies, and participate in kids rides.

A group of volunteers called Friends of Gwynns FallsLeakin Park, Inc maintain the park and donate money towards keeping the parks nurture centre open.

The dead teenager at the centre of the true-crime story was found buried in a shallow grave in Leakin Park.

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Picture: Google Leakin Park, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

Source:Supplied Yet, its beauty has been marred by death and crime since the first body was discovered in 1948.

Richard Truman was 13 years old when he was accidentally shot and killed by 15-year-old Robert Clayton Wright, who panicked and stashed the teens body in Leakin Park, unwittingly starting a horrific trend which has seen the discovery of 68 bodies (that have been accounted for).

Minefield. The bodies found in Leakin Park in recent decades, including that of Hae Min Lee, the strangled teenager whose murder is retold in the podcast Serial.

Source:News Corp Australia Another famous case included the murder of 20-year-old Eugene Leroy Anderson, a Black Panther party sympathiser, whose skeleton still clothed was found by police on October 27, 1969.

According to Baltimores City Paper, Anderson was kidnapped tortured by Black Panther members a nationalist and socialist organisation made up of black community members formed as a response to police brutality after they suspected him of being an FBI informer.

His eyes were gauged out, alcohol was rubbed on his body and he was beaten and scratched for two days before being killed.

Although police sought and charged many members of the Baltimore Black Panther branch, no one served time for his murder.

Family park. Despite its reputation as a mass gravesite, families continue to flock to Leakin Park.

Photo: Flickr Leakin Park, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, Source:Flickr Although well-known to Baltimore locals, Leakin Park pronounced Linkin has recently gained global notoriety through Serial, the podcast which has taken the world by storm after (unofficially) reopening the cold-case of Hae Min Lee, a popular Baltimore high school student who was murdered in 1999, and her body found you guessed it in Leakin Park.

Her murder investigation was unofficially reopened by Serial producer Sarah Koenig on October 3, 2014.

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Source:Supplied When interviewing locals for the third episode of Serial, presenter Sarah Koenig was told that: if youre digging in Leakin Park to bury your body, youre going to find somebodys elses.

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