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Thomas Lawson

Case from Anchorage, AK dated Jan 14, 1984

Victim Details

Thomas Lawson

December 14, 2022

Male

White / Caucasian

Anchorage

AK

1984-01-14

1984-01-14

45

Thomas

Lawson

07/09/2026


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Thomas Lawson, a 45-year-old male from Anchorage, died after midnight on January 14, 1984. He had come north years earlier after a stint in the U.S. Air Force and worked iron on the city's rising skyline, picking up shifts behind the wheel of a Yellow Cab when winter slowed construction. On that cold Saturday, residents in the Muldoon neighborhood noticed a taxi idling in the middle of their street. Officers who answered the calls found Lawson in the driver's seat with a gunshot wound to the hea ...
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  • Murder In Alaska: Thomas Lawson
  • Stupid Teens Kill a Cabbie (1984) - Butcher Baker - Leland E. Hale
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