John Dease Coulthurst

Murdered

On September 7, 1982, in the small fishing village of Craig, Alaska, a tragic event unfolded aboard the 58-foot fishing vessel Investor. The boat's owner, 28-year-old Mark Coulthurst, his pregnant wife Irene, their two young children—5-year-old Kimberly and 4-year-old John—and four teenage deckhands were brutally murdered. The victims were shot with a .22-caliber firearm, and the assailant attempted to conceal the crime by setting the vessel ablaze.

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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.

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