{"id":4898,"date":"2019-01-08T14:24:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T14:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2019-01-08T14:24:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T14:24:23","slug":"witnesses-forklift-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/witnesses-forklift-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Witnesses: The Forklift Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"

“What Happened in Craig”\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Another\u00a0witness known to troopers was Charles \u201cFat Charlie\u201d Clark. Clark drove a forklift at Phillips Cold Storage and loaded\u00a0ice into the hundreds of fishing boats moored\u00a0in\u00a0Craig. It was the kind of job that put him in regular contact with virtually every fishing boat in the fleet.<\/p>\n

On the day of the fire, it was Clark and a truck driver who grabbed\u00a0fire extinguishers, jumped in the cold storage skiff and raced toward the black plume on the horizon.\u00a0As they steered out to\u00a0Craig\u00a0harbor, they saw another skiff approaching rapidly, passing them from\u00a030 to 40 feet away and sending a large wake surging in their direction. Clark remembered\u00a0that they had to aim their skiff into the wake of the incoming skiff to avoid overturning\u00a0their small craft.<\/p>\n

It didn’t work as planned. Water from the wake flooded their engine and thwarted\u00a0their rescue effort. They returned\u00a0to the cold storage facility.<\/p>\n

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\nFinger docks, Phillips Cold Storage<\/strong>, Craig, Alaska (courtesy Alaska State Troopers)<\/p>\n

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After their failed encounter at the Hill Bar, Trooper Anderson remembered that Charlie Clark\u00a0had encountered the skiff man. Maybe, he reasoned, this guy could positively identify John Peel as the man seen fleeing the Investor<\/em>. With precious time already lost to the killer, Kolivosky sent Anderson off to round up the forklift guy. They would meet, they decided, at the old cannery dock, on the other side of town.<\/p>\n

While Kolivosky and company waited near the cannery, they saw John Peel heading their way. He walked along Craig’s main street, headed down the cannery dock, stopped at a worn-down seine boat named the Libby No. 8 <\/em>and started talking to her crew. From what they could tell, he knew them well.<\/p>\n

When Anderson brought their witness a short time later, Kolivosky directed him to walk down the dock. As they\u00a0passed John Peel, Kolivosky pointed him out\u00a0and asked Clark if he resembled the man\u00a0driving the skiff.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, that\u2019s John Peel, I know him,\u201d Clark responded. John Peel worked on the Libby 8, <\/em>Clark\u00a0said.<\/em>\u00a0And, the forklift operator continued, he had loaded ice onto the Libby 8\u00a0<\/em>probably 30 times that summer.<\/p>\n

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\nLibby 8<\/strong>, Ketchikan, Alaska, 1994 (copyright Leland E. Hale)<\/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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