The Investor Murders (Part Two: Trials & Tribulations)
Unresolved
Unresolved Productions
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🗓️ 27 September 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
John Kenneth Peel was a 24-year-old living in Bellingham, Washington - who seemed to be the perfect match for the killer. In addition to matching the suspect profile, Peel had a complicated prior relationship with the victims, and had both the means and motive to commit the crime.
However, the case presented by state officials over the next several years would reveal large gaps in the narrative they had spent years (and millions of dollars) weaving, leaving behind several questions that remain unanswered to this day...
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| 0:00.0 | On the afternoon of September 7, 1982, a small group of fishermen docked in a small, isolated |
| 0:16.2 | Alaskan town named Craig. |
| 0:18.6 | Notice the smoke coming from a harbor about one mile away. |
| 0:22.0 | Residents began to look upon the fire in the distance as a couple of ships went out to |
| 0:25.8 | investigate. |
| 0:27.1 | Eventually learning that the smoke was coming from a 58 foot fishing vessel named The Investor, |
| 0:32.5 | which had quietly left Craig's port a little over one day prior. |
| 0:37.2 | Having anchored in a quiet cove near Fish Egg Island, the investor had been uncomfortably |
| 0:42.1 | silent since leaving the small town. |
| 0:45.0 | It was believed that all four crew members, as well as the family of the ship's owner, |
| 0:50.0 | were still on board, but a full accounting would take weeks to conduct due to the damage |
| 0:54.6 | that had already been done by the time emergency crews responded that evening and managed |
| 0:59.3 | to quell the flames. |
| 1:01.0 | In total, eight people had perished in the tragedy of whom only four would be positively |
| 1:06.5 | identified. |
| 1:07.5 | Ship owner Mark Coltersd is pregnant wife Irene, their five-year-old daughter Kimberly, |
| 1:13.2 | and Mark's cousin slash Decanne Mike Stewart. |
| 1:16.9 | Another Decanne, Jerome Keone, would be identified through partial dental records, but the other |
| 1:22.7 | three assumed dead in the blaze. |
| 1:25.6 | Decanne's Chris Heyman and Dean Moon, as well as Mark and Irene's four-year-old son, |
| 1:30.5 | John, were assumed dead. |
| 1:33.2 | Investigators theorized that the blaze which had raged for the better part of an entire |
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