Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier

Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier


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The Saga of Chris McCandless
September 19, 2022

On September 6, 1992, two young hikers from Anchorage arrived at the old Fairbanks city bus #142, a makeshift shelter located on the Stampede Trail, twenty-five miles west of Healy. They immediately n

Vanished in the Alaska Wilderness
September 02, 2022

Erin Marie Gilbert - As Ive mentioned in other episodes, each year, an average of 2,250 people disappear in Alaska, twice the national average. According to the Alaska State Troopers, approximately

Maximum Security Part 2: Bryan Perotti
June 28, 2022

In 1994, Kristopher Marcy and his friend, Bryan Perotti, managed the unthinkable when they escaped from Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward, Alaska. When Marcy and Perotti first escaped, the po

Maximum Security Part 1: The Brutal Murder of Shirley Koonz
June 07, 2022

- Alaska is a dangerous place; many things can kill you here. Vicious predators, extreme temperatures, treacherous terrain, raging rivers, violent storms, and the churning ocean describe a few of th

Ed Krause – Alaska’s First Serial Killer
May 18, 2022

Many serial killers have called Alaska home, and if you apply the broadest definition to the term, then serial killers terrorized settlers here long before profilers coined the term serial killer. A

Betrayal of Trust: The Murder of Sonya Ivanoff
April 23, 2022

Recent events have reminded us that we cannot always trust the police to protect us. In the U.S., though, bad policemen and women represent only a small minority of law enforcement. I feel I can turn

Funny River Bones
March 28, 2022

Alaska is big; the state spans an area as wide as the distance from California to Florida, and much of the terrain is wild and inhospitable. Alaska has 39 mountain ranges, 12,000 rivers, 100,000 glac

How to Become a Widow
March 04, 2022

- Someone entered Buck Hofhiness Fairbanks home on a bitterly cold January night and shot him seven times. His young bride, Verna, discovered his body, and she appeared shocked and confused. She to

Mystery Swirls Around the Disappearance of Vladimir Kostenko
January 17, 2022

Alaska Hatcher Pass - Friends and family describe Vladimir Petrovich Kostenko as a seeker, a man searching for the meaning of life and hoping to find his place and purpose in the universe. Alaska, wit

The Murder of John Hartman and the Fairbanks Four
December 27, 2021

“You’re trying to fill my brain with things I didn’t do.” Rabinowitz Courthouse, Fairbanks At 2:45 am on October 11th, 1997, three friends in Fairbanks were heading home from a bar when they discovere