Hansen speaks with the lead investigator on the case, Det. Bruce Vaughan, who shares previously-undisclosed details about the puzzling murder he says kept him awake at night for 13 years.

The Court should find that Miss Brehmer engaged in one of the most serious crimes that we have in Alaska (...) She executed Cynthia Hoffman in a murder-for-hire plot. She conspired with numerous ...

Hansen is asking about the detective’s work on a particular case years ago, one that sounds like it ought to be the title of a gruesome Stephen King story: The Octopus Murders. “It’s a tough ...