Murder on Fletcher Ice Island

2024-05-03に共有
In something out of a suspense movie, in 1970 a shooting on a nearly inaccessible ice island left a Navy research division desperately seeking answers- How do authorities deal with an alleged murder in one of the most remote places on the planet? The shocking Murder on Fletcher’s Ice Island deserves to be remembered.

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コメント (21)
  • @pithicus52
    The old "The gun just went off" defense. Without adding "while my finger was on the trigger".
  • @navret1707
    And here I thought this “murder” would go into the cold case file.
  • An amazing story to say the least.I was in a sub shop late one night and an older gentlemen came in that reminded me of santa claus.He told me he can just came home from doing a tour at the south pole.We talked for a while and he mentioned something about an ATM machine with the station only having one.He said he was glad to get back to civilazation .He was a geolagists and had been working at the south pole for 3 yrs.Pardon my spelling.Thanks history guy.
  • I hate hearing that he got away with murder. He made the overt act of getting the rifle obviously to at least threaten the other guy and therefore caused the chain of events, whether or not the rifle was defective.
  • @-.Steven
    A man is killed, but no crime was committed. Things that make you go humm. 🤔
  • Oh yes, send in the lawyers. As Thomas Jefferson remarked "lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour."
  • @WillaHerrera
    I often think of how fortunate the world is that an amazing guy was left with a choice to make and the choice he made was The History Guy channel.
  • My retired USAF meteorologist says this was quite the story in their circles which were not in the Arctic. 🥶 our kids grew up being threatened with Ellesmere Island. (Grounding in a cold place, it seems, was the most extreme punishment he could think of.)
  • @cm5971
    “Pre-Jethro Gibbs era” that’s a hysterical Easter-egg!
  • Once again, you have fund a piece of history that most of us have not heard of which is interesting and useful. Thank you, THG.
  • Good morning History Guy and everyone watching. Have a good weekend all.
  • @shawnr771
    The balloon based extraction method was called a Fulton extraction It was developed by the CIA in the early 1950s. The extraction method was used on T3 to retrieve documents at least one point during the expedition to Fletchers Island. The Fulton extraction was shown in the movie The Green Berets with John Wayne. Using it to extract a captured North Vietnamese General. The extraction method was replaced by longer range helicopters
  • @75RWM
    What, no Ice Island pirates?
  • @maxshea1829
    There is no shuffle There is no shuffle here Here on the North Pole On this quiet dome Sunshine on crystal And milky walls of ice All seem so fragile Under the polar sky (Front 242)
  • All the trouble started when that damn German Shepherd showed up one day.