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Where Truth (And Facts) Go To Die

November 29, 2022 admin Leave a comment

I should never have gone there. Should have been content to look forward, not backward. Should have listened more closely…

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Posted in: Culture, politics, True Crime

World’s Most Evil Killers: Robert Hansen

November 23, 2022 admin Leave a comment

Robert Hansen was infamous in his own, small world. His was the world of Alaska, its Bush and its glaciers,…

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Posted in: Butcher Baker, Serial Murder, True Crime

Epigraphs, Aphorisms and Truisms

November 8, 2022 admin Leave a comment

One of the hazards of my profession obsession are the tantalizing bits that float in our shared consciousness. You know,…

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Posted in: Culture, politics, tragedy

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

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

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

Norman “Butch” Johnson Goes Into Analysis

October 12, 2022 admin Leave a comment

When Butch Johnson was first rescued by the passing light airplane, he told his rescuers that he had “escaped from…

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Posted in: Culture, Mass Murder, tragedy, True Crime

Arctic Circle: A Dark Object by the River

October 10, 2022 admin Leave a comment

Butch decided that the only way out of the camp was to take one of the snow machines. It was…

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Posted in: Culture, Mass Murder, tragedy, True Crime

Coffee and Cases Podcast: What Happened in Craig

September 30, 2022 admin Leave a comment

Thanks so much to the charming crew at Coffee and Cases for interviewing me for their latest episode. It’s always…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, 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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