This is Deborah Roberts here with another weekly episode of our latest series from 2020 and ABC Audio, Cold-Blooded Mystery in Alaska.

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Because Ketchikan, Alaska is so remote, the easiest way to get things to and from the town is often by boat. Huge barges and ships carry freight back and forth

between Alaska and Washington State, making their way over the waters of the Pacific Ocean.

For more than 30 years, Craig Beyer was part of this enormous shipping operation.

Back in 2017, I was the manager of ABA Freight System Incorporated terminal here in Tacoma, Washington.

As an employee at a freight carrier, Craig was used to getting calls from customers concerned

about their shipments. And in March 2017, he got one of those worried calls, this time

from one Jordan Joplin.

I'm kind of in this really weird dilemma right now.

I got three cubes up to Ketchikan.

Jordan said he had filled three shipping containers in Ketchikan

and asked them to be sent to his home in Washington.

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