BUNCOMBE, NC – The hiker who was found tied to a tree near the Blue Ridge Parkway was sexually assaulted, the National Park Service confirmed Wednesday, according to Citizens-Times.
Buncombe County Emergency Management says the 64-year-old woman was taken to the hospital after being assaulted on the Parkway.
The National Park Service has released a sketch of the suspect in the investigation.
They say the man is approximately 50-years-old with salt-and-pepper hair.
He is believed to have partially grown in (scruff and unkept) facial hair.
They think he was wearing a light or faded grey short sleeve T-shirt, baggy blue pants that appear to be old and faded.
He was wearing a dark pair of tennis shoes.
They also say the man may appear and smell of a musty odor of being unwashed in several days.
