Robert Johnson, a 22-year-old white male grocery clerk from Anchorage, Alaska, was found beaten to death in Earthquake Park in 1973. Contemporary accounts and later retrospectives identify the attack as a brutal beating that ended the life of the 22-year-old man in the wooded expanse just west of the city, a place where the bluff falls away toward Cook Inlet and trails wind through the trees. Several sources place the killing on June 3, 1973, anchoring the young man's final day not in autumn but
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