Editing Craig, Alaska (section)

=== 2004 murder of Lauri Waterman ===
On November 14, 2004, Robert Claus, a now retired Alaska state trooper, received a call in the police station that a hunter had found a burning van with potential human remains in it over on a logging road.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2021-11-28 |title='My Family Is Going To Hate Me,' 16-Year-Old Weeps After Confessing She Had Her Mom Killed |url=https://www.oxygen.com/fatal-frontier-evil-in-alaska/crime-news/lauri-waterman-killed-after-daughter-rachelle-asked |access-date=2025-03-12 |website=Oxygen Official Site |language=en-US}}</ref> At the same time, a local man named Doc Waterman reported that his wife, Lauri Waterman, was missing, as she had been last seen at a Chamber of Commerce dinner 24 hours before and her [[Chrysler minivans|Chrysler minivan]] was also gone. They identified the burning van as the Chrysler and concluded that the human remains have been identified as being from Lauri Waterman.<ref name=":0" /> Doc was a decorated serviceman who had met Lauri in [[Utah]] before they moved to Alaska and were parents to two children. On November 18, 2004, Brian Radel, was arrested and charged with murder, as he explained that he had broken into Lauri's home and abducted her, tying her up with a synthetic robe. He forced her to drink wine so she would be intoxicated, then put her bound on the car's backseat.<ref name=":0" /> When he and Jason Arrant, his accomplice, reached an isolated spot, he dragged her out of her car, wrestling with her to snap her neck and simulate a car accident, but he strangled her instead after it failed. Rachelle Waterman, Lauri′s 16-year-old daughter, and Jason Arrant were arrested the next day, as they were charged with conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping, burglary, and first degree murder.<ref name=":0" /> In June 2005, Brian Radel pleaded guilty and received a 99-year sentence. Arrant, meanwhile, as he didn't actually commit the murder, received 50 years. Rachelle went to trial in January 2006. Both Radel and Arrant testified against her, but the trial ended in a hung jury. A retrial was held in 2011, and she was only convicted of criminally negligent homicide and sentenced to three years in prison. Rachelle has since been released from prison and left Alaska behind.<ref name=":0" />