{"id":13536,"date":"2020-02-27T15:24:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T15:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/?p=13536"},"modified":"2020-03-02T16:04:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:04:41","slug":"clyde-curry-what-if-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/clyde-curry-what-if-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Clyde Curry Gets On The What If List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">When <em>Decade<\/em> skipper Clyde Curry went before the Grand Jury in Ketchikan &#8212; a Grand Jury that twice indicted John Kenneth Peel for the <em>Investor<\/em> murders &#8212; he sounded a note of caution about his own testimony.  &#8220;I\u2019m not even real comfortable about answering these questions here now because I\u2019m not sure whether it\u2019s something I remember or something I read some place, you know. That\u2019s just the way it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/images\/decade-drydock-blaine.png\" alt=\"clyde\"\/><figcaption><strong>F\/V Decade<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a pitiful place to be. Clyde Curry&#8217;s boat was 20 feet away from a gruesome mass murder and he was not in the least bit aware of it. If there was any comfort in that, he wasn&#8217;t the only one. In a devastating piece for the <em>Bellingham Herald,<\/em> entitled &#8220;Two Years of Frustration End With Arrest,&#8221; journalist Trask Tapperson wrote a what-<strong><em>if<\/em><\/strong> list that counted the ways things had gone wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a long, frustrating philippic, quoted below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8220;<strong>If <\/strong>the crew of the <em>Decade<\/em>, to which the Investor was moored the night of the murders, had not gotten drunk, might they have seen who crossed their deck to kill?<\/li><li><strong>If<\/strong> the hungover crew had acted next morning when they saw the <em>Investor<\/em> drifting out to the channel without power, with its lines left on the <em>Decade&#8217;s<\/em> deck&#8230; might the killer have been caught red-handed?<\/li><li><strong>If<\/strong> <em>Decade<\/em> skipper Clyde Curry had notified authorities as he left for a fishery opening that afternoon that he was unable to raise the <em>Investor<\/em> on radio, might the killer have been caught on shore where he awaited the <em>Investor&#8217;s<\/em> sinking?&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/images\/craig-downtown-1st-bank-bw.png\" alt=\"clyde\"\/><figcaption><strong>Downtown Craig in mist<\/strong> (copyright Leland E. Hale)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tapperson was just getting warmed up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8220;<strong>If<\/strong> anyone had investigated why the skiff was tied to a cold storage float, would not the killer, or an accomplice, have been found in this tiny fishing port? It was a skiff [AST Sgt.] Stogsdill once described as painted like &#8220;a little baby <em>Investor<\/em>,&#8221; just sitting for two days in a village so small that [AST Sgt.] Miller once said &#8220;you could throw a rock from one end to the other&#8221;?<\/li><li><strong>If<\/strong> the crew of the <em>Casino<\/em>, which encountered the skiff leaving the burning purse seiner from Craig, had taken its occupant into custody&#8230;?<\/li><li>One man unwittingly helped the killer tie up the skiff, and another spoke briefly with him even as the <em>Investor<\/em> was becoming a floating firestorm &#8212; what might have happened <strong>if<\/strong> one of them had tried to stop him?<\/li><li><strong>If<\/strong> it had not rained so hard on the skiff, might not fingerprints of the man have been found?<\/li><li>And how quickly might have the case been solved <strong>if<\/strong> authorities had been able to seal off Prince of Wales Island before the man in the skiff slipped through&#8230;?&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/images\/clark-bay-hollis-terminal.png\" alt=\"clyde\"\/><figcaption><strong>Hollis Ferry Terminal, Prince of Wales Island<\/strong> (copyright Leland E. Hale)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, we don&#8217;t live in a world of what-ifs. Trask Tapperson&#8217;s missing links were scraps of reality, gone forever. Tragic mistakes left for some future investigation to avoid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But oh how tantalizing they are&#8230; <\/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>(2020). 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>. 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