James William Parrillo, 57, has a lengthy history of encounters with law enforcement including taking hostages on a yacht and threatening a former president.
, hurriedly shut the door and snapped the dead bolt. She braced the door as her captor tried to enter and then stared menacingly from the other side.
Police say the woman may have been just the latest in Parrillo’s trail of terror - a potential serial kidnapper and abuser who used multiple aliases and preyed on women backpacking along the West Coast’s national scenic trials for years. she posted in 2019 warning hikers to stay away from Parrillo. Dhooma had met him, she says in the video, while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in 2018. “Sometimes you get a bad feeling in your gut. I instantly got a rotten, rotten vibe from this guy.”
Parrillo stormed aboard a 155-foot yacht in a Fort Lauderdale marina and held eight people hostage at gunpoint, according to multiple news accounts in Florida newspapers at the time. Those reports said Parrillo was born in New Jersey, though he was described as a drifter and an ex-con. He told the Sun-Sentinel reporter he was thrown out of the U.S. Navy after not disclosing a previous assault conviction., a former National Park Service ranger, is writing a book called “Trail of the Lost,” in which she details the Fort Lauderdale incident. She writes he was using the alias “Tony DeCampo” at the time, one of many aliases that would surface over the years.
On June 15, 2020, Parrillo was charged in Flagstaff, Arizona, with misdemeanor drug offenses, including possession of paraphernalia. Warnings of his alleged cons also emerged on social media around the Pacific Crest Trail, which spans 2,650 miles through California, Oregon and Washington to the Canadian border.posted multiple warnings to hikers and backpackers with Parrillo’s photos when he was spotted at stops on the trail and also sightings on the Arizona Trail, an 800-mile trail from Mexico to Utah. He was going by the names “Medic” and “Phantom,” the warnings said.
The pair had a consensual relationship that ended about a month later in California, the woman told authorities, according to court documents filed in support of the kidnapping charges.
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