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True Crime: Halfway Witnesses

October 31, 2022 admin Leave a comment

Criminal trials depend on witnesses. Even DNA evidence, with its high degree of accuracy, requires an expert witness to walk…

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

True Crime: Jeff Pfundt Confronts Uncertainty

October 27, 2022 admin Leave a comment

You have to put yourself there. In Craig. At the end of the season. You’ve been going practically non-stop. When…

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

No Comment, No Comment

August 5, 2021 admin Leave a comment

Final arguments are supposed to be final. Phil Weidner had taken some of the air out of that notion, with…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, boat fire, Craig Alaska, Judge Walter Carpeneti, larry demmert, Mary Anne Henry, Phillip Weidner, What Happened In Craig

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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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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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

I.S.P.Y: Cops Made Dumb Mistakes

July 29, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Marcia Hilley had strong opinions about most things. Except the cops. She was ambivalent about the cops. Her father had…

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Chasing Rabbit Holes, Chasing Suspects

July 16, 2020 admin Leave a comment

When you find yourself frustrated with the never ending dumbfuckery of Jim Robinson, take heed. His story was like so…

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About A Killer: One of Those Debates

July 3, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Winter 1992 was a pretty heady time. Butcher, Baker had just been published. It was selling like wildfire right out…

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Revealed: A Man With A Troubled Past

July 2, 2020 admin 1 Comment

Jim Robinson was no innocent. He had a very troubled past. The son of well-to-do trucking company owners, Robinson –…

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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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