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Month: August 2020

Cross-Post: September 2 Premiere

August 27, 2020 admin 2 Comments

World Premiere SEPTEMBER 2nd. (Hey, that’s less than a week from today.) Features exciting new audio excerpts from Robert Hansen’s…

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Cross Post: Arrow Media & Butcher, Baker

August 25, 2020 admin 2 Comments

Two vans pulled up to our place at 9:00 am. Four people piled out and started lugging equipment up the…

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Defense Scores a Miss (And a Hit)

August 20, 2020 admin Leave a comment

As the Peel case wandered into defense territory, Phil Weidner scored a hit. And a miss. It was all about…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, boat fire, Craig Alaska, The Investor, What Happened In Craig

Waitress Assailed By Memory Expert

August 19, 2020 admin Leave a comment

One of the witnesses who could damage John Peel was Alice Irons, the waitress who served the Coulthurst’s their last…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, What Happened In Craig

My Arson Investigator Is Better Than Yours

August 18, 2020 admin Leave a comment

The defense’s next expert, meanwhile, openly contradicted the prosecution’s arson investigator. Prosecution expert Barker Davie had opined that the Investor…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, boat fire, Judge Thomas Schulz, What Happened In Craig

Expert Experts Counter Ordinary Experts

August 14, 2020 admin Leave a comment

The defense was not banking its case entirely on witnesses that could contradict prosecution witnesses. There simply weren’t enough witnesses…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, Bellingham, Judge Thomas Schulz, The Investor, What Happened In Craig

Second Man in Skiff: Was He Acting Alone?

August 13, 2020 admin Leave a comment

John Peel’s defense predictably countered that testimony pointing to a stocky, dark-complexioned Native man raised questions about a core prosecution…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, boat fire, Craig Alaska, John Peel, Phillip Weidner, What Happened In Craig

Peel Not in Skiff, Says Defense Witness

August 6, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Allegations of witness manipulation aside, there was one witness the State presumably hadn’t manipulated. He was the first witness for…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, Craig Alaska, John Peel, Phillip Weidner, What Happened In Craig

State of the Case: Posturing in Public

August 5, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Phil Weidner was definitive when it came to judging the state of the prosecution’s case at this psychic and procedural…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, Craig Alaska, John Peel, Mark Coulthurst, Mary Anne Henry, Phillip Weidner, What Happened In Craig

After the Prosecution Rests: What’s Next?

August 4, 2020 admin Leave a comment

When the prosecution announced it was resting its case, the spectators let out an audible sigh of relief. That same sigh…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, Judge Thomas Schulz, Phillip Weidner, What Happened In Craig

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What Happened in Craig

On a foggy afternoon in September of 1982 the Investor, a salmon fishing vessel, was engulfed in flames near the tiny village of Craig, Alaska. All efforts to stop the blaze were repulsed by the heat and fury of fire—until the blaze had run its course. Eight people, including a pregnant woman and two small children, were missing…

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