True Crime Creepers

This week, we’re heading deep into the Alaskan wilderness to cover one of the most chilling mass murders in the state’s history — the 1983 McCarthy massacre.

McCarthy wasn’t just remote… it was practically off the grid entirely. A tiny community tucked inside Wrangell-St. Elias National Park where residents crossed icy rivers by hand-powered tram, recognized each other by boot prints in the snow, and gathered every Tuesday for the biggest event of the week: mail day.

But on March 1st, 1983, that quiet tradition turned into absolute horror.

A man named Louis Hastings arrived with a rifle, a plan, and a terrifying mission that would leave six people dead, two more wounded, and an entire community permanently shattered. And somehow, the motive behind it all is even more unbelievable than the crime itself.

This case has isolation, survival stories, a real-life sniper hunt in the snow, and one of the strangest murder plots we’ve ever covered.

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Sources:

Hastings v. State :: 1987 :: Alaska Court of Appeals Decisions

Louis D. Hastings - Wikipedia

6 KILLED IN ALASKA IN SHOOTING SPREE - The New York Times

The McCarthy Massacre of 1983

Death Does Not Wait For the Mail Plane - The Washington Post

Louis Hastings | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

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Jason Young was three hours away when his wife was murdered. Receipts, surveillance footage, phone records—on paper, everything checks out. He was exactly where he said he was.

But the more investigators dig in, the more that story starts to fall apart.

There’s a gap in the timeline no one can fully explain. A security camera that was tampered with. A strange stop at a gas station that raises more questions than answers. And piece by piece, it starts to look less like coincidence… and more like something planned.

As more comes to light—affairs, money, a marriage that was clearly struggling—the question becomes harder and harder to ignore:

Was this a solid alibi… or something much more calculated?Sources:

Dateline episode S20 E34 Silent Witness 

Book: Murder on Birchleaf Drive: The True Story of the Michelle Young Murder Case by Steven B. Epstein

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A routine favor turns into a nightmare.

When Meredith Fisher agrees to stop by her sister’s house, something feels off the moment she arrives—lights on in the middle of the day, a dog whining inside, a door that won’t open. What she finds upstairs will haunt her forever: a brutal crime scene, her sister dead, and a child left behind in the aftermath.

As investigators begin to piece together what happened inside that house on Birchleaf Drive, the picture that emerges is anything but simple. A marriage unraveling. Fights escalating. Secrets building.

And a husband who just happens to be out of town… with a story that almost makes sense.

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Sources

Dateline episode S20 E34 Silent Witness 

Book: Murder on Birchleaf Drive: The True Story of the Michelle Young Murder Case by Steven B. Epstein
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What starts as a messy love triangle and a drunken fight quickly spirals into something much darker. By the next morning, one man is dead, one woman is critically injured, and the person responsible has already fled the scene. But the biggest question isn’t just what happened—it’s who should be held accountable in the end.

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Sources:

Netflix: I Am A Killer, Season 1 Episode 5: Intended Evil 

⁠Charles Victor Thompson - Wikipedia⁠

⁠Court of Criminal Appeals Opinion 73,431 Handed Down 10/24/2001⁠

⁠Who Remembers the Young Teen Whose Mother Was Shot to Death? - Houston Press⁠
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What's that saying about the best laid plans? Well, ours were derailed this week and unfortunately we were not able to record an episode. But with Mogab's recent visit to the Masters tournament, we thought it was a good time to drop our episode, originally a mini creep over on our Patreon, about that time #1 golfer in the world Scottie Scheffler was arrested at the PGA championship.

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