Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier

How to Become a Widow

Someone entered Buck Hofhines’s Fairbanks home on a bitterly cold January night and shot him seven times. His young bride, Verna,...

Mystery Swirls Around the Disappearance of Vladimir Kostenko

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...

The Murder of John Hartman and the Fairbanks Four

“You’re trying to fill my brain with things I didn’t do.”

At 2:45 am on October 11th, 1997,...

The Bethel School Shooting

Before Santa Fe, before Marjory Stoneman Douglas, before Sandy Hook, and even before Columbine, there was Bethel Regional High School in Bethel,...

The Kidnapping and Murder of Amy Sue Patrick

We can never know another person’s thoughts and motivations. Most killers have a reason to commit murder; whether for revenge, jealously, or money,...