The scene investigation at the Knik River gravesite would be directed by the AST Palmer post. The macabre discovery was, after…
Maxine Farrell was right. Dancers were going missing. And they weren’t coming back. By late November, 1981, a pattern had emerged with a…
While John Lucking and Chuck Miller were struggling with the Joanna Messina murder, a larger problem loomed on the horizon. The…
Blame it on the bear. Because of John Lucking, and the beast he encountered at her hasty gravesite, Joanna Messina was…
At some point, one supposes, it was inevitable that either the vet would come clean or his wife would become…
With a new lead pointing to a local veterinarian as a promising suspect, it came down to one thing. Interview…
With the various threads of the story leading them into a morass of leads, it seemed logical to get back…
Once troopers identified Joanna Messina, they could begin to piece together her story. Like many people before her, Joanna had…
As John Lucking’s homicide investigation continued, he struggled to identify the victim and her possible killer. For a while, it…
In investigating a possible homicide on the Kenai peninsula, Investigator John Lucking ran across a black bear. Black bears are the…