{"id":4456,"date":"2018-12-11T14:51:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T14:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/?p=4456"},"modified":"2018-12-11T14:51:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T14:51:48","slug":"jerry-mackie-calls-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/jerry-mackie-calls-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Mackie Calls for Assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Excerpts from the unpublished original manuscript, “<\/em>Sailor Take Warning,” by Leland E. Hale. That manuscript, started in 1992 and based on court records from the Alaska State Archive, served as the basis for “What Happened in Craig.” In this installment, Jerry Mackie summons\u00a0assistance after finding\u00a0a\u00a0<\/em>suspicious man in his mom’s bar.<\/i><\/p>\n

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From the expansive front windows of the bar, Mackie could see Kolivosky, McCoy\u00a0and Trooper Anderson standing in front of J.T. Brown’s — a dry goods store that sold\u00a0sleeping bags, guns and the other essentials of Alaskan life. He scurried down the streets\u00a0of Craig, which had been torn up to make way for a sewer line, and told them what he had seen.<\/p>\n

“There’s a man in my mom’s bar who matches the guy seen in the Investor<\/em> skiff,” Mackie excitedly told them. “And he’s acting real nervous.”<\/p>\n

The troopers answered\u00a0Mackie’s call for assistance by summoning\u00a0two first-hand witnesses:\u00a0<\/em>Kolivosky sent Anderson scampering back to the city float to roust the crew of the Casino<\/em>. He wanted them to take a look at this guy; they’d not only seen him, they’d spoken\u00a0to him.<\/p>\n

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\nView from Hill Bar<\/strong> (JT Brown’s @ left center. Note the distinctive roofline seen here and in the following images; courtesy Beverly Sheakley, 2014)<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nDowntown Craig in the ’80’s<\/strong> (street view; JT Brown’s right foreground)<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nJT Brown’s from Third\u00a0Street <\/strong>in\u00a0<\/strong>Craig (copyright Leland E. Hale)<\/em><\/p>\n

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In Retrospect: Author’s Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Casino<\/em> crew were less than ideal witnesses. Their encounter with the skiffman was of\u00a0brief duration. It was on the water, between boats of different height: one a troller, the other a power skiff. And it was inevitably influenced by the crew’s\u00a0primary concern — getting to a burning boat off Ben’s Cove. At the time of their encounter they were hardly\u00a0thinking they’d just spoken to a murder suspect.<\/p>\n

Were there better options?<\/p>\n

At this point in their investigation, troopers had identified five people who had seen the skiffman. One, who worked at the cold-storage dock, had already left Craig. Two others, who had seen and<\/em> spoken to the skiffman onshore, as he landed in Craig, lived near Hollis — on the other side of Prince of Wales Island. These two witnesses were, realistically, several hours from Craig on miserable roads. Bruce Anderson and Jan Kittleson from the Casino,\u00a0<\/em>on the other hand, were nearby. And available.<\/p>\n

When the call went out for witness assistance, they got the nod.<\/p>\n

But Anderson and Kittleson\u00a0were, ultimately, reluctant witnesses. Their fear, reinforced through a night of worry, was palpable. They agreed to a walkthrough at the Hill Bar more out of duty than anything else. Still,\u00a0they had started off as good citizens. They weren’t going to stop now, when an investigation was on the line.<\/p>\n

Copyright Leland E. Hale (2018). All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Order “What Happened In Craig<\/strong>,” HERE<\/strong><\/a> and HERE<\/strong><\/a>. True crime from Epicenter Press about Alaska’s Worst Unsolved Mass Murder<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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