In this installment, we continue Walter Gilmour’s narration of his encounters with Gary Zieger. Here we learn that a set…
His name was Gary Zieger. Kim Rich wrote about him in “Johnny’s Girl,” and how he turned her life inside…
Then-Corporal Walter Gilmour had reached a point in the Beth van Zanten case where, in his own words, “I couldn’t…
Two of Gilmour’s best leads had gone sideways — Greg passed his polygraph and Hansen had an alibi for the…
In March of 1972, Robert Hansen went to trial for his Assault with a Deadly Weapon charge against the real…
As January dragged on, Walter Gilmour was called into the Director’s office, so that Col. Dankworth could brief him on…
In 1972, the results of polygraph tests were inadmissible in Alaska courts. With some notable exceptions, they are still inadmissible. A…
After talking to Greg’s friends, some of the troopers got the impression they might be covering for the perpetrator(s). That…
Wassilie is a Yup’ik name, (perhaps derived from the Russian, “Wassily,” given early contacts between the two groups). Many in…
Greg Nicholas was good friends with the Young family who, like him, were Alaska Natives. They were with him when…