On Monday, December 28, 1981, Tim and Tina Spierlings were found dead in the bedroom of their Palmer, Alaska, home.…
In a very real way, Glenn Flothe’s Alaska State Trooper career has been defined by the Robert Hansen serial murder…
“Five days after the second body was found on the Knik, Lieutenant Bob Jent of the Alaska State Troopers assigned…
In this installment of Walter J. Gilmour’s original drafts, we explore the aftermath of the Knik River investigation. An autopsy…
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…
As John Lucking’s homicide investigation continued, he struggled to identify the victim and her possible killer. For a while, it…