Robin Barefield
- Alaska Wilderness Mystery Author
- Author Masterminds Charter Member
- Host of Murder and Mystery Podcast
Articles
Murder at the North Pole
After a string of murders of young women near Fairbanks in the late 1970s and early ’80s, the abductions and murders mysteriously stopped. Troopers didn’t …
The Fate of the Tidings
Commercial fishing in Alaska ranks as the most dangerous job in the United States. Commercial fishing for tanner or king crab on Alaska’s high seas …
A Deadly Cruise
If you want to murder someone, you might consider inviting him or her on a cruise with you. With little law enforcement oversight and a …
Perry Mason and the Court of Last Resort
When you hear the name Perry Mason, what do you visualize? Many of us see Raymond Burr, the title character in the old black-and-white television …
Leon Crane’s Amazing Adventure
Whenever I fly in a small plane in Alaska, I think how easy it would be to disappear if the plane went down. It could …
Mysterious Portlock
At the tip of the Kenai Peninsula in Port Chatham Bay, sixteen miles south of Seldovia, sits the mysterious ghost town of Portlock, Alaska. What …
The Mysterious Murder of Cecil Wells
A wealthy, powerful man, a beautiful widow, a scandalous affair, a murder, and a suicide: This true-life crime drama had it all, except for the …
Alaska Cold Cases Solved with Genetic Genealogy
Sixteen-year-old Shelley Connolly loved to party and dreamed of becoming a cosmetologist. On January 6, 1978, Shelley told her mother she was going roller skating …
How Pandemics Changed History
How will the covid-19 pandemic end? Will it change the world? Will some countries emerge stronger, while others appear weak due to their inability to …
The Valley of Headless Man
Nahani National Park With landmarks bearing the names of Deadmen Valley, Headless Creek, Funeral Range, and Hell’s Gate Rapids, you might think twice before planning …
We All Leave Footprints
I work in the wilderness tourism business, an industry described by many names, including adventure tourism, green tourism, and sustainable tourism. Ecotourism is my least …
Terror in the Wilderness
I write wilderness mystery novels set in the remote, untamed wilderness of Alaska, and I also write a newsletter about true crime in Alaska. Recently, …
Podcasts
The Disappearance of Laura Henderson
What happened to Laura Henderson? One of the most controversial court cases in the history of the state of Alaska resulted from the disappearance of …
The Investor Murders: Alaska’s Worst Unsolved Mass Murder
What happened on the F.V. Investor on a September night in 1982 in the sleepy village of Craig, Alaska? By the time investigators extinguished the flames on the …
The McCarthy Massacre of 1983
The residents living within a fifty-mile radius of McCarthy, Alaska enjoyed their solitary lives, but they looked forward to gathering and socializing each Tuesday while …
The Murder of Sophie Sergie
In the early morning hours of Monday, April 26, 1993, someone brutally raped, stabbed and shot Sophie Sergie in a college dorm on the University …
Robin Barefield lives in the wilderness on Kodiak Island where she and her husband own a remote lodge. She has a master’s degree in fish and wildlife biology and is a wildlife viewing and fishing guide. Robin has published three novels, Big Game, Murder Over Kodiak, and The Fisherman’s Daughter. She draws on her love and appreciation of the Alaska wilderness as well as her scientific background when writing.