White/Caucasian. Florence “Flo” Evelyn Carlson Hegland, a 59-year-old woman from McCarthy, Alaska, was one of six residents slain on March 1, 1983, when a gunman opened fire in the tiny, winter-quiet town. She and her husband, Lester “Les” Hegland, had lived in Alaska for decades and kept an unlocked porch near the airstrip where neighbors could collect groceries from the weekly mail plane; that ordinary kindness became part of the day's grim geography when the shooter moved toward the l
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