Monthly Archives: December 2023

The Mystery of the First Broken Arrow

December 20, 2023UncategorizedAlaska Podcast, Broken Arrow, Fat Man Atomic Bomb, Mark IV Atomic Bomb, Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier, Mystery Podcast, Robin Barefieldmurder-in-the-last-frontier

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The U.S. military defines a “Broken Arrow” as an “unexpected event involving nuclear weapons that result in the accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft, or loss of the weapon.” The first Broken Arrow event occurred in 1950 during a mission from Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, Alaska. Questions still surround this event and the mystery of what happened to the B-36 aircraft and the Mark IV atomic bomb it carried.

Map Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada

Sources

Adams, Sharon. “The lost nuke of British Columbia.” January 26, 2022. Legion.

Clearwater, John M. “The first one to get away.” November/December 2004. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Liefer, Gregory P. Chapter 12: “Broken Arrow.” 2011. Anchorage, AK. Publication Consultants.

Roos, Dave. “’Broken Arrow’: When the first U.S. atomic bomb went missing.” January 13, 2020. History.

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FTA: Murder at the North Pole

December 6, 2023EpisodeAlaska Podcast, Fairbanks Serial Killer, FBI Profile, Murder and Mystery in Alaska, Murder Podcast, Mystery Podcast, North Pole Alaska, North Pole Serial Killer, Robin Barefield, Serial Killer, Thomas Richard Bunday, True Crime Podcastmurder-in-the-last-frontier

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After a string of murders of young women near Fairbanks in the late 1970s and early ’80s, the abductions and murders mysteriously stopped. Troopers didn’t believe the vicious killer had suddenly halted his murder spree, but they feared the predator had moved somewhere else. Unfortunately, at the time, they had no database to track the killer’s movements beyond Alaska. Only the deductive reasoning and hard work of seasoned investigators traced the monster to his new hunting grounds, four thousand miles away.

Sources:

Brennan, Tom. Murder at 40 Below. Chapter 9: “Having trouble with girls.” 2001. Kenmore, WA: Epicenter Press.

Capps, Kris. “Bunday never denied he was killer, trooper recalls.” March 17, 1983. Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.

Capps, Kris. “Bunday was suspect in 1980.” March 17, 1983. Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.

Fisher, Susan. “Authorities were awaiting more facts.” March 17, 1983. Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.

Ice Cold Killers. Season 1, episode 5: “North Pole slay ride.”

“Troopers release summary of Thomas Bunday murder case.” April 29, 1983. Fairbanks Pioneer All Alaska Weekly.

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Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier Trailer

December 4, 2023UncategorizedAlaska Podcast, Alaska True Crime, Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier Trailer, Murder Podcast, Mystery Podcast, Robin Barefield, True Crime, True Crime Podcastmurder-in-the-last-frontier

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Welcome to Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier. Listen to tales of true crime and mystery in Alaska.

What evil lay in store for the residents of McCarthy, Alaska, when they gathered to meet their weekly mail plane?

Did infamous serial killer Robert Hansen fly his victims into the wilderness and hunt them just as he had hunted the trophy animals hanging on the walls of his home?

Who slaughtered the Coulthurst family and their crew on the Fishing Vessel Investor and then set fire to the boat?

Who kidnapped the Fandel children?

What horrors awaited the residents of Manley Hot Springs when they visited the boat landing?

Why did a young man in Palmer, Alaska, attack his father and his girlfriend with a machete?

Was the disappearance of the plane carrying Representatives Hale Boggs and Nick Begich an accident or something much more sinister?

Why do so many people step into the Alaska wilderness and disappear?

What is the Alaska Triangle, and is there any evidence that it actually exists?

I invite you to listen to Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier and hear these and many other tales about the dark side of Alaska.

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Monthly Archives: December 2023

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Karluk Bones Audiobook Narrated by Beth Chaplin

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Karluk Bones Audiobook Narrated by Beth Chaplin

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