Robin Barefield
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Listen to tales of true murder and mystery in Alaska.
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Alaska's frontier hauntings gather around snowy roads, old hotel halls, and music from an unseen piano.
Alaska's wilderness gives these frontier ghost stories a cold, unsettled charge, with restless spirits tied to lonely roads, old hotel rooms, and rumors that seem to linger in the weather.
A calm-water sinking reveals the risks and contested safety culture behind Alaska's crab fleet.
Robin Barefield turns the sinking of the Americus and Altair in calm Bering Sea water into a measured look at how crab gear, routine safety habits, and an industry wary of regulation could leave crews exposed.
A cold Alaska murder case that stays suspended between suspicion, testimony, and doubt.
This episode stays with the 1982 Juneau apartment killings of James and Anne Binocan and the uneasy question of whether Newton Lambert was the man the state pursued.
Measured true crime with uneasy questions.
A true crime podcast exploring murder and mystery cases in Alaska, starting with the disappearance of retirees Robert and Dagmar Linton and the case of possible serial killer Charles Sinclair.
A true crime podcast recounting an Alaskan ghost story about a father and daughter who died in the woods.
The episode recounts the sinking of two sister ships on Valentine's Day 1983 in the Bering Sea, a major commercial fishing disaster that killed 14 men and sparked a safety investigation.
The episode tells the story of Jason Vukovich, who assaulted known pedophiles in Anchorage as a response to his own childhood abuse.
This episode investigates the disappearance and possible murder of controversial Alaskan political figure Joe Vogler.
Robin Barefield recounts how Igor Dyatlov led nine other hikers into the Ural Mountains in January 1959, where they later cut their way out of a tent and died in freezing conditions.
Eleven-year-old Mandy Lemaire disappeared on August 22, 1991, during a short walk in Taslina, Alaska, a village of 241 people.
The John and Olaf held coffee-filled cups, but its four-man crew and life raft had disappeared.
This episode details the crimes of serial killer Gary Zeger in 1970s Anchorage, Alaska.
A true crime podcast exploring a mysterious disappearance and violence against women in Alaska.
A true crime podcast exploring murder and mystery cases set in the Alaskan wilderness.
This episode explores the first U.S.
This episode discusses a series of murders of young women near Fairbanks in the late 1970s and early 80s, and the challenges of tracking the killer across state lines before national databases existed.
After Cecil Wells was killed in Fairbanks on October 17, 1953, his injured wife Diane described an attack by two intruders.
Fourteen men died when the sister ships Americus and Altair sank in relatively calm Bering Sea waters on February 14, 1983.
Robin Barefield cites a reported 16,000 disappearances since 1988 while questioning whether the Alaska Triangle needs a supernatural explanation.