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Don’t Go Back

December 3, 2024 admin Leave a comment

Butcher, Baker: The Untold Story, Part 3 After escaping Robert Hansen’s basement torture chamber, Cindy Paulson faced a raft of…

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Posted in: Butcher Baker, Cindy Paulson, Culture, Robert Hansen, Serial Murder, True Crime

The Ten Commandments

October 18, 2024 admin Leave a comment

Four Too Many You have to give some of the Christians in our midst considerable credit. They bend, but don’t…

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Posted in: Culture, politics, Religion, Society

Vomit Bag Politics

July 2, 2024 admin Leave a comment

When The Choices Make You Sick According to the Pew Research Center, only about 60% of the voting-age population cast…

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Posted in: Culture, Elections, politics, Society

Alaska Natives on POW

June 14, 2024 admin Leave a comment

Kasaan and Klawock Long before the Europeans arrived on Prince of Wales (POW), Alaska Natives of the Tlingit and Haida…

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Posted in: Culture, Klawock Alaska, Prince of Wales Island, What Happened In Craig

Boeing, Boeing Am I Going?

March 14, 2024 admin Leave a comment

As a child of Seattle, my Boeing associations are closely felt. When a Boeing test pilot performed a slow barrel…

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Posted in: Culture, Society, Technology

Politics Ad Nauseam

March 11, 2024 admin Leave a comment

Many of us — most of us? — have friends on “the other side.” Perhaps “friends” is a stretch. Followers,…

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Posted in: Culture, politics, security, Society

Don’t Want To See It

November 30, 2023 admin Leave a comment

There was a piece in The Seattle Times recently, averring that prostitution has declined on Seattle’s Aurora Avenue. It caught…

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Posted in: Culture, politics, Robert Hansen, Science, security, Society, Technology

A Bit & Some Pieces: Recent Rants & Rages

November 6, 2023 admin Leave a comment

As is my practice, I save topics until they reach a critical mass. And then I… Pontificate. (See the white…

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Posted in: Culture, Mass Murder, politics, Science, security, Technology, True Crime

Dribs & Dabs On Parade

July 18, 2023 admin Leave a comment

Time for a blog update. Actually, I’m overdue. Sorry, folks. Because of fortuitous circumstances, I went directly from one book…

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Posted in: Culture, politics, Technology

Strange Heists: Playing With Coins

April 26, 2023 admin Leave a comment

An April 2023 story about a Philadelphia heist brought back memories. The New York Times reported that thieves broke into…

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Posted in: Culture, Heist, Technology, True Crime

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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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