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Category: Mark Coulthurst

What Dawn Told Lester Johns

March 3, 2021 admin Leave a comment

After declaring Dawn Holmstrom a hostile witness, Judge Carpeneti hoped to get the trial back on track. Once the jury…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, Bellingham, John Peel, Judge Walter Carpeneti, juneau, Mark Coulthurst, Mary Anne Henry, 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

Taking Another Run At John Peel

June 25, 2020 admin Leave a comment

A month after the Richard Olmstead disaster, Mary Anne Henry attempted a second run at John Peel. This time, she…

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

Five Lines of Testimony

June 16, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Of all the witnesses who appeared during May of 1986, Dawn Holmstrom seemed particularly important. She had plans to meet…

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

May 1986 – A Parade of Witnesses

June 10, 2020 admin Leave a comment

In May 1986, prosecutor Mary Anne Henry brought a steady torrent of witnesses through the Ketchikan courtroom. She’d already called…

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

Crime Scene Investigation Takes the Stand

April 8, 2020 admin Leave a comment

After a brief foray into other matters, we return once more to the story of the F/V Investor. In this…

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

To Catch A Killer: Missed Opportunities

March 4, 2020 admin Leave a comment

By Monday, September 6, the Investor crew is already dead. But three people — Clyde Curry, Dale Rose, and Larry…

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Posted in: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder, Craig Alaska, larry demmert, Mark Coulthurst, Prince of Wales Island, The Investor, What Happened In Craig

A Dizzying List of Witnesses

January 30, 2020 admin Leave a comment

As Mary Anne Henry dove into her opening statement, she reeled off a cacophony of names, a dizzying list that…

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

A Torrent of Evidence, A Second Indictment

December 24, 2019 admin Leave a comment

As the grand jury presentation wore on, Troopers provided another bit of “scientific evidence.” They recruited two volunteers to walk…

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

Questioning the Prosecution’s Motives

December 3, 2019 admin Leave a comment

Phillip Weidner took the defense allegations one step further when he presented a critique of alleged prosecutorial motives in the…

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

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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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