Mr E Files
The Alaskan Nightmare - The McCarthy Massacre Where Mail Day Turned Deadly
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McCarthy was the kind of place where a weekly mail plane was more than postal service—it was a ritual. In 1983 the Heglin house, with its patched-on porch and the area’s only reliable two-way radio, was the heart of that ritual. Twenty-two people who lived on the edge of Wrangell–St. Elias National Park waited there every Tuesday for news, supplies, and neighborly company. Nobody imagined a…