AUTHOR’S NOTE: At the outset, I want to acknowledge invaluable contributions to this story from these three primary sources: the…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The aftermath of the 1967 shoot-out at the Hilltop Bar and Café, near Soldotna, began to play out…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: After the Ann Pederson suicide and the Jack Griffiths murder in 1961, the former Circus Bar in Soldotna…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The jury in the Jim Bush murder trial would soon have a decision to make. Bush did not…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: When a crime has no witnesses other than the accused perpetrator, investigators must search hard for other forms…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Only a few months after the 1961 suicide of “Mrs. Oscar W. Pederson” behind a bar in eastern…
From the moment my father began working for the U.S. Army in Whittier, Alaska, in the fall of 1957, until…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Although the focus of this interconnected series of stories rests squarely upon actions that occurred in or near…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The motives people have for violent actions can be difficult to discern. We can examine the evidence we…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Best friends Ira Little and Marvin Smith came from California to the Kenai Peninsula in 1947. They homesteaded…
For the better part of a decade on the central Kenai Peninsula, the lives of Ira Little and Marvin Smith…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The funeral 57 years ago for North Kenai’s George Coe Dudley became the stuff of local legend. A…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: A similar version of this story first appeared in the Redoubt Reporter in 2010.
