Dan Bross, KUAC - Fairbanks
Dan Bross is a reporter at KUAC in Fairbanks.
2 jailhouse informants say Fairbanks 4 talked on crime
Members of the Fairbanks Four made incriminating statements in jail. That’s according to two men who served time with George Frese, Kevin Pease, Marvin Roberts and Eugene Vent, the men known as the Fairbanks Four, challenging their convictions for the October 1997 beating death of John Hartman.
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Former Fairbanks DA questioned over handling of 2011 Holmes statement
The Fairbanks District Attorney’s office did not put much credence in information undermining the convictions of four men for a 1997 murder.
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Witness claims Fairbanks 4 defendant had blood-stained shoes
A woman claims that one of the Fairbanks Four had blood stained shoes from the 1997 assault of John Hartman. In a video deposition played at an ongoing evidentiary hearing in the contested case Tuesday.
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State introduces first witnesses in Fairbanks 4 hearing
The state has begun calling witnesses in the Fairbanks Four evidentiary hearing. As the proceeding stretches into its 4th week, the focus has shifted from witnesses summoned by attorneys representing exoneration petitioners to those offered by state lawyers trying to uphold the men’s convictions for the 1997 murder of John Hartman.
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Marvin Roberts testifies at ongoing Fairbanks Four hearing
Another one of Fairbanks men seeking exoneration from murder convictions has testified to his innocence. Marvin Roberts is the last of the so called Fairbanks Four, to address the court in an ongoing hearing to re-consider the 18-year-old case in light of new evidence.
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Polygraph results debated at Fairbanks Four hearing
One of the Fairbanks Four passed a polygraph. The results of the lie detector test taken by Marvin Roberts last year were shared during day 13 of an evidentiary hearing being held to consider whether the Fairbanks Four are innocent.
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Ex-FBI agent faults Fairbanks police interrogation tactics
A former FBI agent says Fairbanks police violated fundamental investigative protocol following the 1997 murder of John Hartman.
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Fear, confusion prompted false confessions, Fairbanks 4 say
Two of the Fairbanks Four say they lied to police about some of what they did the October 1997 night John Hartman was attacked, but maintain they did so out of fear and confusion, not guilt.
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Fairbanks Police Department under fire at city council meeting
The Fairbanks Police Department came under criticism at last night’s city council meeting. During citizen’s comments, Fairbanks resident and Alaska Native Daisy Stevens questioned the department’s handling of recent and past homicide investigations.
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Expert disputes boot print evidence in Fairbanks 4 case
Boot print evidence used to link one of the Fairbanks Four to the 1997 murder of John Hartman, are disputed by a forensic expert.
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Pease testifies, says confession was coerced
The first of four Fairbanks men seeking exoneration from convictions for a 1997 murder took the stand at an ongoing evidentiary hearing yesterday.
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FBX 4 witnesses recall aggressive police questioning
People who say they were with the Fairbanks Four the night of John Hartman’s 1997 murder, recount aggressive questioning by police trying to build a case against the men.
Forensic psychologist doubtful of witness testimony at FBX 4 hearing
A perception and memory expert took the stand at the Fairbanks Four hearing on Tuesday. University of Washington psychology professor Jeffrey Loftus’s work focuses on our ability to recognize others at distance and under various conditions, including darkness.
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FBX 4 investigators testify, point to languishing evidence
Two Alaska State Troopers hired in September 2013 to re-investigate the 1997 John Hartman murder case testified in state court in Fairbanks on Monday.
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FBX 4 testimony: Classmate says Wallace confessed to him
A man who claims a high school classmate told him he and group of friends killed John Hartman back in 1997, testified in state court in Fairbanks on Thursday.
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Court sees video deposition in ‘Fairbanks Four’ hearing
A video deposition of a man implicated in the 1997 John Hartman murder in Fairbanks, was played in court Wednesday.
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Holmes implicates new assailant during day 1 of FBX Four hearing
A hearing re-examining long questioned murder convictions opened in state court in Fairbanks today. A group of Native men, who’ve come to be known as the Fairbanks Four, were convicted of the October 1997 beating of 15 year old John Hartman on a downtown street, but new evidence has leveraged another look.
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Court to hear new evidence in Fairbanks Four case
An evidentiary hearing is scheduled to begin Monday in state court in Fairbanks in the case of four Fairbanks men seeking exoneration from convictions for a nearly two-decade old murder.
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Heavy snowfall cuts power to thousands around Fairbanks
School and University of Alaska Fairbanks classes are cancelled and thousands are without power this morning in the Fairbanks area due to heavy snow.
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Public asked to help find 23-year-old moose hunter
The public’s help is being sought to find a Fairbanks man who went missing off the Dalton Highway 3 weeks ago. Twenty-three-year-old Dalton Hanson disappeared while on a moose hunting trip.
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