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Caucasian/White male, age 25. In the first minutes after midnight on October 19, 1985, Douglas Cleaves was at his Sand Lake duplex in Anchorage with his sister and two friends when heavy knocks sounded at the door. A masked figure in a balaclava, combat gloves, and a tan trench coat forced the door, stepped inside with what witnesses took to be a bolt-action hunting rifle, and went straight for Cleaves, who had been recovering from a devastating workplace accident that summer. Pleading that they ...Read More
Caucasian/White male, age 25. In the first minutes after midnight on October 19, 1985, Douglas Cleaves was at his Sand Lake duplex in Anchorage with his sister and two friends when heavy knocks sounded at the door. A masked figure in a balaclava, combat gloves, and a tan trench coat forced the door, stepped inside with what witnesses took to be a bolt-action hunting rifle, and went straight for Cleaves, who had been recovering from a devastating workplace accident that summer. Pleading that they ...Read More
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Douglas Cleaves
December 14, 2022
Male
White / Caucasian
Anchorage
AK
1985-10-19
1985-10-19
Yes
25,000
25
Douglas
Cleaves
11/30/2025
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Just came across this chilling case from 1985, and it’s been haunting me since I read about it. I ... ...Read More
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