Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier
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Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier
Listen to tales of true murder and mystery in Alaska.
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FTA: The Alaska Triangle
First named in 1972, the Alaska Triangle stretches from Anchorage in southcentral Alaska to Juneau in the southeast panhandle to Utqiagvik (formerly B...
Murder by Mail
At Raymond (R.D.) Cheely’s sentencing hearing for the random highway murder of Jeffrey Cain, prosecutor Steve Branchflower said that the shooting deli...
Easier than Divorce
We all know married couples who seem to thrive on discord. These are the people we avoid joining for dinner and the ones in whose presence we squirm a...
Murder in the Bering Sea
On March 22, 1990, the Aleutian Enterprise, a one-hundred-and-forty-three-foot factory trawler, rolled over and sank in the Bering Sea. Nine crew memb...
FTA: Murder on Shuyak Island
On November 12th, 2015, Peter, the Island Air, mail-plane pilot, landed at Port William Wilderness Lodge on Shuyak Island. The lodge occupies an old c...
The Deadly Dyatlov Pass Mystery
On January 23, 1959, ten hikers embarked on a wilderness hiking/skiing expedition into the Ural Mountains in the Eastern Soviet Union. Most of the hik...
The Abduction of Mandy Lemaire
A family moved to a small Alaska village because the parents believed it would be a safe environment where they could raise their children. Then, the...
Alaska’s Ghost Ships
A ghost ship is an adrift vessel with no living passengers or crew aboard. Sometimes, we know why the ship was abandoned or what tragedy occurred to t...
FTA: Guilty but Mentally Ill
It took a horrible murder for Alaska to revise its statutes for the criminally insane from some of the most lenient sentencing laws in the country to...
The Strange Disappearance of Thomas Nuzzi
When a fifty-two-year-old traveling nurse disappeared in Anchorage in 2001, the authorities showed little interest, and the Anchorage Police Departmen...
Beautiful, Deadly Mount Iliamna
Mt. Iliamna is an active cone-shaped volcano located one hundred and forty miles (225 km) southwest of Anchorage and seventy miles (113 km) northwest...
Who Murdered Bonnie Craig?
I can’t imagine the agony of losing a child for any reason, but how does a mother cope when she learns someone murdered her daughter, and she knows te...
Did Lisa Donlon Murder Her Husband in Self-Defense?
On the morning of October 7, 2010, Lisa Donlon dialed 911 and told the dispatcher she had just shot and killed her husband. When the police arrived at...
FTA: The Deadly Trooper
Most of us like to believe we can trust the police, but not everyone goes into law enforcement for the greater good. Some enter the police academy bec...
The Strange and Tragic Lives and Deaths of Guy and Johnny Waterman
Nineteen years after his son disappeared while climbing Mt. Denali in Alaska, Guy Waterman ascended a mountain ridge in New Hampshire i...
The Valley of Headless Men: Nahanni National Park
With landmarks bearing the names of Deadmen Valley, Headless Creek, Funeral Range, and Hell’s Gate Rapids, you might think twice before planning a tri...
FTA:: The Search for Bethany
When Bethany Correira disappeared, the residents of her hometown of Talkeetna, Alaska, immediately responded to search for one of their own.
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FTA: Deadly Trails
Most people understand they face the risk of encountering wild animals when they enter the woods in Alaska, but they do not expect someone to shoot th...
The Strange Downward Spiral of Actor Teddy Kyle Smith
My primary source for this article was the Audible Original production of Midnight Son by James Dommek Jr. I highly recommend this three-hour audioboo...
FTA: Web of Seduction
Brennan, Tom. 2015. Dead Man’s Dancer. Epicenter Press.
https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mans-Dancer-Mechele-Linehan/dp/1935347160/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=...
Is Brian Steven Smith Alaska’s Latest Serial Killer
Batts, Amber. “Anchorage police ignored warnings, let Brian Steven Smith keep killing.” August 18, 2024. This is How We Rise.
Boots, Michelle Th...
FTA: The Horrible Misdeeds of Papa Pilgrim
Harden, Blaine. “A bulldozer runs through it.” September 28, 2003. Washington Post.
Kirby, Mark. “Papa Pilgrim’s progress: The dark tale of an A...
The Bullion Brothers’ Triple Murder
“Anchorage man gets 300-year sentence for 2017 triple murder in gold shop.” May 24, 2024. Anchorage Daily News.
Andrews, Lisa Demer Laurel. “Wit...
FTA: An Explosive Divorce
Associated Press. “Jury acquits Mackay of murder.” February 7, 1988.
Brennan, Tom. Cold Crime. Chapter 10: “An angry man.” 2005. Kenmore, WA: Ep...
Beautiful, Deadly Mt. Iliamna
Mt. Iliamna is an active cone-shaped volcano located one hundred and forty miles (225 km) southwest of Anchorage and seventy miles (113 km) northwest...
Murder at a Kodiak Fish Site
In 1988, forty-four commercial fishermen died at sea near Kodiak, Alaska, making it the deadliest fishing year on record. That year, fi...
What Happened on the Prinsendam
Imagine alarm bells startling you from a peaceful sleep aboard a luxury cruise ship at 1:00 a.m. You didn’t take the “abandon ship” drill seriously on...
FTA: The Teen Who Ordered a Hit on Her Mother
Most teenagers fight with their parents, and during a heated argument, some kids might even scream, “I hate you” at their mother or father, but such d...
Mysterious Murderer William Dempsey
What was his name? How old was he? Where did he come from? What happened to him? These are a few of the questions concerning the man known as William...
FTA: The Palmer Machete Killer
We’ve all seen the horror movie where a stranger towers over his unsuspecting victim while she sleeps, and she awakes just in time to s...
Murder at the Mayor’s House
When the Kotzebue police entered a bedroom in a house on the mayor’s property on May 23, 2018, they found the lifeless body of twenty-f...
FTA: Serial Killer Joshua Wade
In one of my last episodes, I profiled Israel Keyes, a serial killer who moved to Anchorage in 2007. Many serial-killer experts consider Keyes to be...
Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan
Harvey Carignan was a vicious serial rapist and killer. He murdered his first victim in Alaska, and she should have been his last because the jury con...
FTA: Serial Killer Israel Keyes
“I’ll tell you everything you want to know. I’ll give it blow by blow if you want. I have lots more blow-by-blow
A monster moved to Anchorage i...
Abandon Ship: The F/V St. Patrick Disaster
When crew members decide to abandon a floundering ship in the North Pacific in the winter in twenty-foot seas, they know they are unlikely to survive,...
Murder North of the Arctic Circle
People imagine snow, ice, and bitter cold when they think of Alaska in January, but Alaska is a big place. I live on Kodiak Island in the southern par...
Klutuk: A Hunter of Humans
Klutuk is Alaska’s version of the boogeyman – a terrifying character you tell stories about around the campfire. He is a man shrouded in mystery and m...
FTA: What Happened to the Fandel Children?
Most parents can imagine no nightmare worse than the disappearance of a child, but how can a parent possibly cope when both of their children vanish,...
A Deadly Cruise
If you want to murder someone, consider inviting them on a cruise. With little law enforcement oversight and a fear of negative publicity, cruise ship...
FTA: Double Murder at a U.S. Coast Guard Base
The double homicide I describe in this episode occurred on a secure Coast Guard base near the town of Kodiak, Alaska, on Kodiak Island, approximately...