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Category: John Peel

Forgetting: The Other Side of Memory

December 5, 2022 admin Leave a comment

As with most things “human,” the operations of the mind are not a one-way street. Scholars like McNally tout the…

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

True Crime: Partial Witnesses

November 1, 2022 admin Leave a comment

We’ve already written reams about Jim Robinson, AKA Kenneth Robertson. A fugitive from justice in Arizona. Owner of Craig Auto.…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, Craig Alaska, John Peel, Judge Thomas Schulz, Ketchikan, Mary Anne Henry, Phillip Weidner, The Investor, What Happened In Craig

Witness Memories: Elizabeth Loftus Redux

October 26, 2022 admin Leave a comment

During July of 1986, Elizabeth Loftus told jurors in Ketchikan Superior Court there were significant problems with the testimony of…

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

Paul Page, Investor Witness, RIP

September 1, 2022 admin Leave a comment

Slightly remiss, here. A few years ago, I heard that key Investor mass murder witness Paul Page had died. It…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, Craig Alaska, Hollis Alaska, John Peel, Ketchikan, The Investor

Ruminations : Things That Matter, Things That Don’t

April 16, 2022 admin Leave a comment

Well folks, this week we have war, Frank R. James and John Peel to discuss. Not necessarily in that order.…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, John Peel, tragedy, True Crime, What Happened In Craig

Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner

January 26, 2022 admin Leave a comment

When lawyer Phil Weidner finally got his win in State of Alaska v. John Kenneth Peel, he also got the…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, John Peel, Judge Walter Carpeneti, Phillip Weidner, The Investor, What Happened In Craig

Denied: Two Critical Decisions

October 13, 2021 admin Leave a comment

There are times in criminal cases when a critical decision seems to turn things in one direction. And one direction…

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Final Arguments On Display

August 10, 2021 admin Leave a comment

For the second jury in John Peel’s murder trial, it was a constant parade-shuffle in and out of the courtroom.…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, John Peel, Judge Walter Carpeneti, juneau, What Happened In Craig

John Peel: Eternal Mystery Man

June 10, 2021 admin Leave a comment

If anything was certain in this trial — in these trials, really — it was that John Peel was still…

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

Addiction Alleged. Sanctions Threatened.

April 8, 2021 admin Leave a comment

March 1988 Phillip Weidner had a way of reaching into the grittiest, grimiest details of a criminal case. As always,…

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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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