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Lester E. Les Hegland

Case from Mccarthy, AK dated Mar 01, 1983

Victim Details

Lester Hegland

Male

White / Caucasian

Mccarthy

AK

1983-03-01

63

Lester

E. Les Hegland

Yes

07/17/2026

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White/Caucasian male Lester “Les” Hegland, age 63, lived with his wife Florence in the tiny, snowbound community of McCarthy, Alaska, where just a couple dozen people wintered in scattered cabins and met each Tuesday at the airstrip for the mail plane. On March 1, 1983, that routine turned lethal. As neighbors gathered near the runway, a 39-year-old Anchorage man, Louis D. Hastings—an out-of-work computer programmer—opened fire with a. 223-caliber Ruger Mini-14. In the sudden chaos that ...
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  • McCarthy, Alaska - Wikipedia
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