Murder On The Last Frontier

Author : Robin Barefield
Publisher : Publication Consultants
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-20
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781637471319

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Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier by Robin Barefield Pdf

Was the Mafia involved in the 1972 disappearance of the plane carrying Congressmen Hale Boggs and Nick Begich, or was it just a simple case of bad weather? Who murdered the postmistress in Ruby? How did the Alaska State Troopers use cutting-edge science to find Sophie Sergie's killer? How does crime differ from one part of Alaska to another? Alaska has always had a high rate of violent crime. From the gold rush to the building of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline to the heyday of king crab fishing, the state's rich resources have attracted eager workers and criminals alike. Travel through time and space with true-crime writer Robin Barefield as she tells you about murder and mystery in Alaska from the early 1900s to the present day and from Juneau to Kiana, Nome, Anchorage, Kodiak, and places in between. Learn about serial killers Ed Krause, Richard Bunday, Gary Zieger, Robert Hansen, and Israel Keyes. Why did Michael Silka suddenly start killing the residents of remote Manley Hot Springs, and what reason did Louis Hastings have for murdering his neighbors in McCarthy? Why was no one ever caught and convicted for the gruesome massacre on the fishing boat Investor? Alaska is vast and breathtaking, but it can also be deadly. Take a road trip and learn about Alaska's past and present through its violent crime. Get a glimpse of murder and mystery in the Last Frontier.

Author : Cathy Pegau
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496700551

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Murder on the Last Frontier by Cathy Pegau Pdf

A fiercely independent woman looks into the murder of a working girl in 1919 Alaska in this “excellent” series debut (Mystery Scene). There’s many who feel the Alaska Territory is no place for a woman on her own. But Charlotte Brody, suffragette and journalist, has never let public opinion dictate her life choices. She’s come to the frontier town of Cordova, where her brother Michael practices medicine, for the same reason many come to Alaska—to start over. Cordova is gradually getting civilized, but the town is still rougher than Charlotte imagined. And when a local prostitute—one of the working girls her brother has been treating—is found murdered, Charlotte learns firsthand how brutal the frontier can be. Although the town may not consider the death of a prostitute worthy of investigation, Charlotte’s feminist beliefs motivate her to seek justice for the woman. And there’s something else—the woman was hiding a secret, one that reminds Charlotte of her own painful past. As Charlotte searches for answers, she soon finds her own life in danger from a cold-blooded killer desperate to keep dark secrets from seeing the light of day…

Author : Cathy Pegau
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496700599

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Murder on Location by Cathy Pegau Pdf

In the Alaska Territory, suffragette Charlotte Brody is a newspaper reporter in the frontier town of Cordova. She’s a woman ahead of her time living on the rugged edge of civilization—but right now the most dangerous element she faces may come from sunny California . . . An expedition has arrived in the frigid wilderness to shoot North to Fortune—an epic motion picture featuring authentic footage of majestic peaks, vast glaciers, homesteaders, and Alaska Natives. But the film’s fortunes begin to go south as a local Native group grows angry at how they’re portrayed in the movie, fights break out, and cast and crew are beset by accidents and assaults. Finally, production is halted when the inebriated director falls into a crevasse—and dies of exposure. Soon Michael Brody—the town coroner and Charlotte’s brother—starts to suspect that Mother Nature was not responsible for Stanley Welsh’s death. Charlotte, who’s been writing about all the Hollywood glamor, is suddenly covering a cold-blooded crime story—and as springtime storms keep the suspects snowed in, she has to make sure the truth doesn’t get buried . . .

Author : John W. Heaton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461746140

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Outlaw Tales of Alaska by John W. Heaton Pdf

Fans of shoot-'em-up books and movie Westerns, as well as history buffs, will enjoy these short biographies about the baddest of the bad villains and desperadoes on the Alaskan frontier. Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Alaska. Readers will find themselves panning for gold with dry gulchers and claim jumpers, ducking the bullets of murderers, plotting strategies with con artists, and hissing at lawmen-turned-outlaws. A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Last Frontier, this book also includes historic, black-and-white photos.

Author : Julia Assante
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781608681600

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The Last Frontier by Julia Assante Pdf

"An exploration of the afterlife and communication with the dead. Author's career has included being both a professional psychic and a professional scholar. Addresses questions about God, heaven, and hell and gives evidence for existence beyond death. Explores historical accounts, religious scholarship, near-death experiences, and after-death communication"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Lindsey A Sherrill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781666906028

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Entertainment, Journalism, and Advocacy by Lindsey A Sherrill Pdf

This book explores the exponential growth of true crime podcasting and its effects on the growth of criminal justice reform advocacy in the United States. Sherrill argues that true crime podcasts exist as hybrid organizations with multiple goals, including entertainment, criminal justice reform advocacy, and journalistic inquiry.

Author : Ernest Haycox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:16265897

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Murder on the Frontier by Ernest Haycox Pdf

Author : James C. Bonner
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820335254

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Georgia's Last Frontier by James C. Bonner Pdf

Published in 1971, Georgia's Last Frontier presents the history of one of the state's least developed regions. During the 1830s, Carroll County was a large part of Georgia's most rugged frontier. James C. Bonner examines how life in this isolated region was complicated by the presence of Native Americans, cattle rustlers, and horse thieves. He details how the discovery of gold in the Villa Rica area resulted in drunkenness and violence, but also laid the foundations of mining technology that were later used in Colorado and California. The region remained isolated until after the Civil War, when a rail line was constructed to stimulate cotton cultivation. With the development of the railway, Carroll County's frontier traditions waned in the early twentieth century.

Author : Tom Brennan
Publisher : Epicenter Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0945397992

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Murder at 40 Below by Tom Brennan Pdf

Drawn from police files, eyewitness accounts, and news reports, these stories introduce extreme criminals in an extreme land.

Author : V. V. Masterson
Publisher : University of Missouri
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : History
ISBN : 0826206689

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The Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier by V. V. Masterson Pdf

History of the first railroad built across Indian Territory (Oklahoma).

Author : Maria Ilma Raufer
Publisher : Milwaukee : Bruce
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : WISC:89060392156

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Black Robes and Indians on the Last Frontier, a Story of Heroism by Maria Ilma Raufer Pdf

Author : Monte Francis
Publisher : WildBlue Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781942266402

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Ice and Bone by Monte Francis Pdf

“A chilling chronicle of victims brutally murdered by a cold, merciless killer, against a backdrop equally as unforgiving—the Last Frontier” (Henry Lee, author of Presumed Dead). On a clear, brisk night in September of 2000, thirty-three-year-old Della Brown was found sexually assaulted and beaten to death inside a filthy, abandoned shed in seedy part of Anchorage, Alaska. She was one of six women, mostly Native Alaskan, slain that year, stoking fears a serial killer was on the loose. A tanned and thuggish twenty-year-old would eventually implicate himself in three of the women’s deaths and confess, in detail, to Della’s murder. Yet, after a three-month trial, Joshua Wade would walk free. In 2007, when Wade kidnapped a well-loved nurse psychologist from her home and then executed her in the remote wilderness of Wasilla, two astute female detectives joined forces to finally bring him to justice. Ice and Bone is the chilling true account of how a demented murderer initially evaded police and avoided conviction only to slip back into the shadows and kill again. Journalist and writer Monte Francis tells the harrowing story of what eventually led to Wade’s capture, and reveals why the true scope of his murderous rampage is only now, more than a decade later, coming into view. “A tremendous amount of exceptional journalistic work went into this, and the book that emerges is richly detailed and deeply sensitive toward the victims and those who loved them. And while in no way forgiving to Wade, Francis seeks to locate the human deep inside him that went terribly wrong, apparently from a very young age.” —Alaska Dispatch

Author : Stuart B. McIver
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Murder
ISBN : 9781561640799

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Murder in the Tropics by Stuart B. McIver Pdf

Here is the first statewide collection of true Florida murders, and as the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. The Sunshine State, from Pensacola to Key West, has played host to a memorable and varied array of crimes of passion, greed and revenge. (Taken from back jacket).

Author : Robin Barefield
Publisher : Publication Consultants
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781637473948

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The Ultimate Hunt by Robin Barefield Pdf

When the daughter of a US senator disappears from the center of Kodiak, Alaska, in the middle of the day, FBI agent Nick Morgan arrives to assist police detective Maureen Horner and Alaska State Trooper Dan Patterson with the investigation. Soon, the officers realize that other young people have vanished from the area as well, and they can find no evidence or eyewitnesses to explain the disappearances. Meanwhile, bored pilot Steve Larson spends his evenings sitting on the back deck of his floatplane air charter service while he recovers from a debilitating illness. He watches a plane land after dark and sees two men escort a seemingly incapacitated woman to the plane and push her into the rear seat. When the same thing happens a few days later, Steve wonders if he's imagining things or if these men are kidnapping people. He calls marine biologist and amateur detective Jane Marcus and asks her to sit with him the next time the plane arrives. Jane agrees with Steve: these men are drugging and transporting people against their will. But where are they taking them, and why? Jane's curiosity leads her into a nightmare worse than anything she could imagine. As law enforcement officers work to find who's behind the kidnappings and where the abductors have taken the victims, Jane fights to survive the monsters chasing her in the ultimate hunt.

Author : Anita Biressi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781403913593

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Crime, Fear and the Law in True Crime Stories by Anita Biressi Pdf

Why do true crime stories exert such popular fascination? What do they have to say about the fear of crime in the present moment? This book examines the historical origins and development of true crime and its evolution into distinctive contemporary forms. Embracing a range of non-fiction accounts - true crime book and magazines, law and order television, popular journalism - it traces how they harness and explore current concerns about law and order, crime and punishment and personal vulnerability.