The McCarthy Massacre
Feb 06, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 159
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Episode description
Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast. In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee as they discuss the McCarthy Alaska Massacre that occurred one fateful day. It was a normal Tuesday Mail Day when Lou Hastings, a deeply disturbed man with a bad plan, cost the lives of almost half the residents of his community. For what though, just so he could keep his wilderness dream?
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Our sources for this episode:
- DocuSeries - Alaska Ice Cold Killers episode "Frozen Terror" on Discovery Channel
- Article - The End of the Road in the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication Spring of 1998 edition by Kevin Coughlin
- Article - After Murder Rampage, A Test of Survival by the Washington Post
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