John Dease Coulthurst

Death by Force

White/Caucasian, Male John Dease Coulthurst, age 4, was one of eight people who never came home from a sleepy late-summer fishing stop in Craig, Alaska. Over Labor Day weekend 1982, his family's new 58-foot salmon seiner, the Investor, eased into the tiny harbor after a long season. On the morning of September 7, the vessel lay oddly at anchor off Fish Egg Island. When smoke began to curl from her decks, neighbors from nearby boats sprinted over the water to help—but they met a wall of fire. W ...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.

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