{"id":6702,"date":"2019-04-22T13:11:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T13:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/?p=6702"},"modified":"2019-04-22T13:11:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T13:11:24","slug":"after-roy-leroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/after-roy-leroy\/","title":{"rendered":"After Roy &#038; LeRoy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">After Sgt. Miller learned the <em>Investor <\/em>back story from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"two experienced men (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/little-kids-teenaged-crew\/\" target=\"_blank\">two experienced men<\/a>, who&#8217;d been there in the days and months before the\u00a0murders, his instincts started to narrow in on Dean Moon. In (some) important respects, Miller&#8217;s reasoning held up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Dean Moon<\/strong> owned a firearm &#8212; though it was not the same caliber as that used in the murders. (He&#8217;d purchased a .30-30 rifle. Troopers learned that the murder weapon was a .22.)<\/li><li><strong>Dean Moon<\/strong> had trained to become the <em>Investor&#8217;s<\/em> skiff boat operator. Was, in fact, the <em>Investor<\/em> skiffman at the time of the murders. Whoever killed the <em>Investor<\/em> crew most certainly knew how to operate that skiff.<\/li><li><strong>Dean Moon<\/strong> also knew how vulnerable a purse seiner was when it was tanked down incorrectly. He&#8217;d been there, on the <em>Kit<\/em>, when it almost sank for precisely that reason. That was a memory fresh enough that someone in a panic might well be tempted to repeat it: Troopers knew beyond hesitation that their perpetrator tried to sink the <em>Investor<\/em>.<\/li><li><strong>Dean Moon<\/strong> was part of a crew that had marinated in bad feelings and overwork, working for a skipper who drove them hard, with little rest, and who finally rewarded them by bringing on exuberant children who were constantly underfoot. After all that &#8212; who knew what could happen?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><p>Unsurprisingly, there was at least one person who thought Sgt. Miller was on the wrong track. Thought, in fact, that he&#8217;d gone off the rails. That person was Dean&#8217;s mother, Ruth Moon. She never thought her son a murderer, and believed Sergeant Miller was going down a blind alley when he kept pointing the finger\u00a0at\u00a0Dean.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/images\/ruth-moon.png\" alt=\"after\" width=\"395\" height=\"294\"\/><figcaption>Ruth Moon and Dean&#8217;s sister, Jill  (courtesy Bellingham Herald)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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>After Sgt. 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