Asian male Kumajiro Yamamoto was living and working in Petersburg, Alaska, when he vanished in January 1913. Contemporary accounts that survive today do not record his age, but they do name him among the early victims linked to a growing pattern of disappearances around the fishing town. Witness recollections and later investigations placed him last in the company of a Petersburg local, Edward “Ed” Krause a man who cultivated respectability while quietly running a theft ring and preying on u
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