{"id":11334,"date":"2019-11-13T14:20:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T14:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/?p=11334"},"modified":"2019-11-17T16:51:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T16:51:48","slug":"rick-hunt-writes-judge-schulz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/rick-hunt-writes-judge-schulz\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Hunt Writes to Judge Schulz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Co-conspirator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/james-teal-fantastic-reveal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Richard Hunt's (opens in a new tab)\">Richard Hunt&#8217;s<\/a> first letter to Judge Schulz arrived in late January 1986, while the judge was in the midst of jury selection. Hunt wrote in a jailhouse scrawl that tumbled across a page filled with misspelled words. He begged Judge Schulz to believe him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/images\/rick-hunt-first-letter-schulz.png\" alt=\"hunt\"\/><figcaption><strong>Transcription of Rick Hunt&#8217;s January 1986 letter to Judge Thomas Schulz<\/strong><br><em>Ed. &#8220;Berry Yours&#8221; is<\/em> Barry Ewers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p> There is a lot to unpack here, but let&#8217;s give it a try. We&#8217;ll start with (some of) Hunt&#8217;s many claims.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Line Three<\/strong>: &#8220;That little girl is alive,&#8221; refers to Kimberly Coulthurst, whose body was among the first identified.<\/li><li><strong>Lines Five, Six<\/strong>: &#8220;I saw [them] merder and bery that little boy&#8230; I no where he is berryed.&#8221; Johnny Peel was, indeed, missing &#8212; so this was a tantalizing tidbit, if true. <\/li><li><strong>Lines Seven, Eight<\/strong>: &#8220;The merder weapon [was a] &#8220;357&#8221; mag.&#8221; The autopsy and FBI reports revealed that the Coulthursts were murdered with a .22 rifle.<\/li><li><strong>Line Nine<\/strong>: &#8220;There was a baseball hat in it.&#8221; Multiple witnesses testified that the skiff operator coming from the <em>Investor<\/em> fire was wearing a baseball cap. <\/li><li><strong>Lines Seventeen, Eighteen<\/strong>: &#8220;The cops have&#8230; the tin box, the hat, the T-bolt .22.&#8221; The &#8220;tin box&#8221; is a reference to the box the skiff operator was seen carrying off the <em>Investor<\/em> skiff on the day of the fire.<\/li><li><strong>Line Nineteen<\/strong>: &#8220;That gun [T-bolt .22] was used to kill little Mark.&#8221; Now Hunt introduces a second murder weapon. He also uses the wrong name for the Coulthurst&#8217;s son. His was name was Johnny, not &#8220;little Mark.&#8221;<\/li><li><strong>Line Twenty-One<\/strong>: &#8220;I&#8217;ll plea guilty for little Kimberly&#8217;s life.&#8221; So&#8230; is Kimberly Coulhurst alive&#8230; or dead? It&#8217;s hard to tell from this missive.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Mary Anne Henry unpacked this a little more succinctly. Here&#8217;s what she told reporters at the time: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was obvious that [Barry] Ewers was feeding them information, that he had made up the story, and that Teal and Hunt were embellishing it from news reports.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n<p><em>Excerpts from the unpublished original manuscript, &#8220;Sailor Take Warning,&#8221; by Leland E. Hale. That manuscript, started in 1992 and based on court records from the Alaska State Archive, served as the basis for &#8220;What Happened in Craig.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright Leland E. Hale <\/em><em>(2019). All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lelandhale.com\/images\/lelandhale-portrait.png\" alt=\"Craig\"><\/p>\n<p>Order &#8220;<strong>What Happened In Craig<\/strong>,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1941890229?pf_rd_p=d1f45e03-8b73-4c9a-9beb-4819111bef9a&amp;pf_rd_r=7G8DPC5WNEGBWK8G6981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/what-happened-in-craig-leland-e-hale\/1129010868;jsessionid=BB32A736B72D9908645D42CAB43111BE.prodny_store01-atgap08?ean=9781941890226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>. True crime from Epicenter Press about <em>Alaska&#8217;s Worst Unsolved Mass Murder<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-conspirator Richard Hunt&#8217;s first letter to Judge Schulz arrived in late January 1986, while the judge was in the midst&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,102,92,16,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaskas-worst-unsolved-mass-murder","category-judge-thomas-schulz","category-ketchikan","category-the-investor","category-what-happened-in-craig"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Richard Hunt Writes to Judge Schulz - Leland E. Hale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Richard J. 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