Dean Moon

Death by Force

White/Caucasian male, age 19, Dean Moon was a teenage deckhand aboard the 58-foot salmon seiner Investor, which tied up in the small port of Craig, Alaska, over Labor Day weekend in 1982. The boat's owner-skipper, Mark Coulthurst, had brought his family and four young crewmen—including Dean Moon, 19—to town to offload fish and celebrate the end of the season. In the early hours that followed, everyone aboard was shot and the killer tried to erase the crime by setting the vessel ablaze. On Se ...Read More

Front Page Detectives: 8 people were murdered aboard an Alaskan fishing ship. While it's the state's most famous mass killing, it's also unsovled.

Inside Unsolved Massacre of Family on Alaska Fishing Boat

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