On March 1, 1983, Florence "Flo" Hegland, aged 59, was tragically murdered in McCarthy, Alaska, during a mass shooting that claimed six lives. Flo and her husband, Lester "Les" Hegland, had been residents of Alaska for 27 years, moving to McCarthy in 1967. They built an addition to their front porch, which they left unlocked so that groceries delivered by the weekly mail plane would not freeze and their neighbors could come by any time to pick them up. The Heglands were considered McCarthy's uno
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