My dad’s days on the Alaska Highway left a collection of photographs, and most of them are available on this website. Three of them, though, presented me with a conundrum.
In these three photos, three different men pose proudly next to a scrawny dead bear. Clearly there has been a bear homicide, but equally clearly we have too many suspects.
This week we discovered that Lt. Charles Parker actually took the bearskin home. His sons used it for years to terrorize their sister. We consider this conclusive evidence that Lt. Parker did the deed.
LT. CHARLES PARKER AND THE BEAR. GUILTY!!! Timberlake Collection.
Mystery solved.