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May 2020
38m 46s

Unsolved Mass Murder: The Crew of the In...

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When an Alaskan fishing vessel is found abandoned and aflame the morning after a storm, it quickly becomes apparent that its crew encountered something much darker than the wrath of the sea. Investigators sift through ash in search of fragments of the murdered crew, uncovering pieces of Alaska's worst unsolved mass murder in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

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