On March 1, 1983, in the remote Alaska hamlet of McCarthy, 25-year-old White/Caucasian woman Amy Lou Ashenden Nash was among six townspeople gunned down during a morning ambush that shattered a community of roughly two dozen residents. Amy had married Charles “Tim” Nash only weeks earlier, in January, and the newlyweds had come to this end-of-the-road town where neighbors gathered for the weekly mail plane and help was hours away. That morning, as residents stirred for the mail run, shots cr
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