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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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 in February 2000...
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.
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
When testifying at his trial, Teddy Kyle Smith said he thought he was shooting Enukins in self-defense when he fired his rifle at Chuck and Paul Bucke...
FTA: Web of Seduction
Mechele Hughes-Linehan
When a beautiful, intelligent, young woman pitted her three fiancés against each other, someone would die.
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Is Brian Steven Smith Alaska’s Latest Serial Killer
Alaska has spawned a long list of serial killers from the gold rush era in the early 1900s to the present day. Is Brian Steven Smith the latest member...
FTA: The Horrible Misdeeds of Papa Pilgrim
Alaska’s slogan is the “Last Frontier.” To some people, this means Alaska is the Wild West, a place with less law and order where they can live as the...
The Bullion Brothers’ Triple Murder
When a shooting at a precious metals and coin shop in Anchorage left three men dead, the two survivors claimed the other one was responsible. It took...
FTA: An Explosive Divorce
Neil Mackay was ruthless in both his personal and business dealings, and associates learned not to cross him. When a car bomb instantly killed his ex-...
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, fishermen also ea...
What Happened on the Prinsendam
The Greatest High-Seas Rescue in Coast Guard History
Imagine alarm bells startling you from a peaceful sleep aboard a luxury cruise shi...
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 see him swing th...
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-five-year-old Je...
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 An...
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...
Saint Michael’s Pain
Imagine a small town where, between 1968 and 1983, the clergy sexually abused eighty percent of the children -- a village where today, the city govern...
FTA: The F/V Investor Murders
What happened on a foggy September day in 1982 in the small fishing village of Craig, Alaska? Many believe they know who killed the crew and passenger...
Greed, Betrayal, and the Murder of Doctor Eric Garcia
By all accounts, Doctor Eric Garcia truly cared for Jordan Joplin, but Joplin considered his relationship with the doctor as a means to an end; or as...
FTA: The Chulitna Charmer
People move to the Alaska wilderness either because they enjoy solitude and crave a subsistence lifestyle or because they wish to escape society. Peop...
Hang by the Neck Until Dead
As a state, Alaska has never had the death penalty. It was abolished in 1957, two years before Alaska became the 49th state in the union. However, fro...