{"id":1079,"date":"2018-08-06T14:12:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T14:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2018-08-06T14:12:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T14:12:25","slug":"beth-van-zanten-informant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/beth-van-zanten-informant\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lonesome Death of Beth van Zanten: The Informant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beth&#8217;s foster cousin notwithstanding, troopers were still looking for an informant, or informants, who could help them break their case. &#8220;Sometimes one phone call, as insignificant as it may seem to the caller, may be just the one we need,&#8221; noted one trooper.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe day after news of the murder hit the papers, Sgt. Walter Gilmour got a phone call. 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Hale. <em>\u201cButcher, Baker.\u201d<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>That informant was a teenage prostitute who had been kidnapped in downtown Anchorage, then raped and nearly murdered in a two-day ordeal along the Seward Highway. <a href=\"http:\/\/butcherbaker.net\/wordpress\/beth-van-zanten-informant\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MORE>>><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/butcherbaker.net\/images\/anchorageedit002.jpg\" alt=\"Informant\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Anchorage in the 1970&#8217;s<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beth&#8217;s foster cousin notwithstanding, troopers were still looking for an informant, or informants, who could help them break their case.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beth-van-zanten","category-butcher-baker","category-serial-murder","category-true-crime"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Lonesome Death of Beth van Zanten: The Informant - Leland E. 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