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#533 - Mountain Massacre - McCarthy, Alaska

2024/10/10
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The episode introduces the remote town of McCarthy, Alaska, and the background of Louis Hastings, a computer programmer with a troubled past who moved to the town with his wife. Hastings' increasing hostility towards the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and his grandiose plan to destroy it lead to a tragic massacre.
  • McCarthy, Alaska, is a tiny, isolated town with a population of around 20 people.
  • Louis Hastings, a former computer programmer, moved to McCarthy with his wife and became increasingly paranoid about the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
  • Hastings' plan to destroy the pipeline involved killing the town's residents and hijacking a mail plane to carry out his attack.

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This week, in McCarthy, Alaska, a tiny, remote mountain town is nearly wiped out of existence, when one of the residents seems to snap, and tries to kill the whole town. In one wild morning, this killer methodically attacks person, after person, all while another resident tries to warn the others, and get a survivor on the only plane, out of town. And this was only the start of a larger plan. A crazy tale of brutality, and survival!

Along the way, we find out that every remote mining village needs another nearby village for booze and brothels, that no one person can singlehandedly take down a major oil pipeline, and that sometimes scenes from movies, happen in real life!!

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