BTS 21 – Solving the Jack Sturgus Cold Case w/ Dr. Laura Koenig and Rick Goodfellow

Back in February of 1921 Anchorage’s first Police Chief was found in an alley with a gunshot wound after just 51 days on the job. For 100 years the death of Jack Sturgus remained a mystery. Have Dr. Laura Koenig and Rick Goodfellow solved this century-old cold-case? In this episode we find out.

Dr. Laura Koenig: Artistic Director for the Anchorage Festival of Music; UAA Music History professor for 15 years; UAA adjunct instructor of flute; principle flute Anchorage Opera; Section Flute Anchorage Symphony Orchestra.

Rick Goodfellow: founder of KLEF radio and owner of Ghost Tours of Anchorage

Cook Inlet Historical Society Lecture: The Life and Once-Mysterious Death of Anchorage's First Police Chief – watch the replay here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/4592q90u/register

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Resources Used to Make This Episode:

https://www.anchoragepress.com/news/finally-solved-who-killed-the-first-anchorage-police-chief/article_d9cd57f2-7ae7-11eb-bdee-df0729f490b7.html

https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2020/01/13/who-killed-anchorages-first-police-chief-nearly-100-years-later-its-still-a-mystery/