White/Caucasian male Mark Dease Coulthurst, age 28, was the ambitious young skipper of the 58-foot seiner Investor when he brought his crew and family into the port town of Craig, Alaska, at the close of the 1982 salmon season. Witnesses later recalled the bustle of that Labor Day weekend: boats crowding the docks, a celebratory mood in town, and the arrival of Coulthurst's high-tech vessel that he had only recently purchased. On the evening of September 5, the Investor tied up in Craig; by the
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