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Category: Craig Alaska

Self-Proclaimed Jury Expert

October 22, 2020 admin Leave a comment

How do you select a jury? There are as many theories as there are lawyers. But attorneys know what they…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, Craig Alaska, Judge Walter Carpeneti, Phillip Weidner, What Happened In Craig

Jim Robinson Redux

September 8, 2020 admin Leave a comment

The controversy surrounding Jim Robinson would not die. Phil Weidner wouldn’t let it. Instead, he called him in as a so-called…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, Craig Alaska, John Peel, Judge Thomas Schulz, Phillip Weidner, What Happened In Craig

Defense Scores a Miss (And a Hit)

August 20, 2020 admin Leave a comment

As the Peel case wandered into defense territory, Phil Weidner scored a hit. And a miss. It was all about…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, boat fire, Craig Alaska, The Investor, What Happened In Craig

Second Man in Skiff: Was He Acting Alone?

August 13, 2020 admin Leave a comment

John Peel’s defense predictably countered that testimony pointing to a stocky, dark-complexioned Native man raised questions about a core prosecution…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, boat fire, Craig Alaska, John Peel, Phillip Weidner, What Happened In Craig

Peel Not in Skiff, Says Defense Witness

August 6, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Allegations of witness manipulation aside, there was one witness the State presumably hadn’t manipulated. He was the first witness for…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, Craig Alaska, John Peel, Phillip Weidner, What Happened In Craig

State of the Case: Posturing in Public

August 5, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Phil Weidner was definitive when it came to judging the state of the prosecution’s case at this psychic and procedural…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, Craig Alaska, John Peel, Mark Coulthurst, Mary Anne Henry, Phillip Weidner, What Happened In Craig

Strange Scenes: A Select Retrospective

August 3, 2020 admin Leave a comment

There are truly strange moments during most trials. Sometimes, they end up on the floor, forgotten as the trial plows…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, Craig Alaska, Judge Thomas Schulz, Ketchikan, Mary Anne Henry, Phillip Weidner, The Investor, What Happened In Craig

Plot Thickens, First a Little, Then a Lot

July 7, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Richard Olmstead had testified before two Grand Juries that John Peel resembled a man buying regular gas on the day…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, Craig Alaska, Ketchikan, What Happened In Craig

About A Killer: One of Those Debates

July 3, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Winter 1992 was a pretty heady time. Butcher, Baker had just been published. It was selling like wildfire right out…

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Revealed: A Man With A Troubled Past

July 2, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Jim Robinson was no innocent. He had a very troubled past. The son of well-to-do trucking company owners, Robinson –…

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What Happened in Craig

On a foggy afternoon in September of 1982 the Investor, a salmon fishing vessel, was engulfed in flames near the tiny village of Craig, Alaska. All efforts to stop the blaze were repulsed by the heat and fury of fire—until the blaze had run its course. Eight people, including a pregnant woman and two small children, were missing…

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