EPISODE SUMMARY

The scattered residents of the McCarthy area were not prepared for the horrors of mail day on February 29, 1983, when one of their neighbors attempted to murder them all.

Beginning this month, I plan to release two episodes of Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier every month. One episode will be new, and I will bring you the other from the archives. I covered many of Alaska’s most famous crimes and infamous criminals in my first podcasts when my audience numbers were low, so I plan to dust them off, re-edit or re-record them if necessary and release them again. I hope you enjoy these episodes. Thank you so much for listening.

SOURCES

Bartley, Bruce. “Killings shock a town on mail day.” March 4, 1983. Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.

Bartley, Bruce. “McCarthy murders trial: Mystery to be unraveled.” December 5, 1983. Sitka Daily Sentinel.

Court of Appeals of Alaska, no. A-8783. Hastings v. State. February 28, 2007. https://casetext.com/case/hastings-v-state-55

Murderpedia. “Louis D. Hastings.” n.d. https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hastings-louis.htm

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