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Category: Alaska’s Worst Unsolved Mass Murder

Alaska Crime: Small Communities Neglected

May 28, 2019 admin Leave a comment

May 16, 2019: “An investigation by the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica has found one in three communities in Alaska…

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Glenn Flothe Triple Header

May 23, 2019 admin Leave a comment

Alaska State Trooper Glenn Flothe is the through-thread between “What Happened in Craig” and “Butcher, Baker.” Flothe played an early…

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Dean Moon & Drugs?

May 22, 2019 admin Leave a comment

Stogsdill was also unwilling to dismiss Dean Moon because, after persistent rumors about drugs, someone finally came forward and implicated him in the…

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Two More Suspects: You Decide

May 21, 2019 admin Leave a comment

As troopers moved on to the crewmembers, however, it got progressively more difficult to decide their fates. Consider Chris Heyman.…

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Five Suspects: Two Down, Three to Go

May 16, 2019 admin Leave a comment

The central focus of the anniversary meeting was, of course, matching the known suspects to the list of the killer’s…

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Anniversary Meeting: One Year Later

May 12, 2019 admin Leave a comment

August 1983: At the one year anniversary of working the Investor case, troopers had fielded close to a thousand calls,…

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At the Barbecue

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Roy Tussing also remembered a barbecue on one of the uninhabited islands that dot the Inside Passage in southeast Alaska. They were…

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Life of a Fisherman

May 7, 2019 admin Leave a comment

Of all the people in Mark Coulthurst’s life, it was Roy Tussing who knew him best. Roy had worked for…

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Start You Sonofabitch

May 1, 2019 admin Leave a comment

At age two, Mark Coulthurst watched his father try to start a lawnmower. He also watched his father give up…

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Chris Heyman, Greenhorn

April 29, 2019 admin Leave a comment

As 1982 came to an end, the troopers found that little had changed. They were still conducting interviews. Still consulting with…

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Kill Brother, Kill Sister

On September 30, 1976, a vehicle explosion rocked downtown Anchorage. When the dust settled, Muriel Pfeil was trapped in the driver’s seat. Dead.

Her brother immediately blamed Neil Mackay, Muriel’s estranged ex-husband — a multi-millionaire lawyer and real estate mogul. Robert Pfeil knew the motive: Mackay wanted custody of the couple’s only child, three year old Scotty.

photo credits: alaskahistory.org; anchorage times; alice puster

Kill Brother, Kill Sister

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