Post by WelshChappie on Nov 20, 2014 4:50:44 GMT -8
This mystery is nothing to do with The Zodiac case, nor do I imply by posting here that the two mysteries are related.
So, for the people who are not already familiar with this Canadian Legend in which the identity of the outlaw still eludes the World to this day despite the Trappers remains being exhumed just a few short years ago for DNA to be collected for comparison to the several high profile 'most likely suspects' that had been long suspected as being the Trapper and in each and every case, the DNA ruled every suspect out as being the Trapper. Some had even written books on the topic and claimed so-an-so was the trapper, only for science to absolutely prove that this was not accurate or true.
The Official Title awarded to this loner is 'The Mad Trapper of Rat River.' A name is associated with him after he told turned up in Canada's Yukon Valley and only spoke to one person before building a cabin out in the woods. That person he briefly spoke with was A current RCMP officer. When the Police Officer asked him why he was there and what he intended to do (because the area he had began building his cabin in was ground given to and occupied by Native American) he told the Police Officer that he was just going to do a bit of trapping on Rat River, and told the RCMP officer who was in full uniform that he wants to be left alone and doesn't want anything to do with the RCMP because he said they were not to be trusted.
What follows would read like fiction if you weren't told it was actual events and these things happened. This man, who told the RCMP officer his name was Albert Johnson, started a chain of events off by shooting an Officer of the RCMP when the cop knocked on his cabin's door. I won't give the story to much detail but suffice is it to say that sticks of dynamite were used to blow his cabin up, and upon approaching the ruins the Trapper was heard laughing manically and opened fire before he took of across the Yukon Valleys in Temp. of -50c and was able to not only survive in these freezing conditions but successfully managed to complete a fete that to this no other man has managed to be able to. Even the Native American population of that area today say that to look at what this man did, under the conditions he did them, makes the Native's respect the Trapper and do so when it was the Natives that first alerted the RCMP of 'The Strange White man who keeps messing with our Traps.'
If readers have an hour or so spare and are lovers of a really good mystery, look no further than the link following this sentence:
So, for the people who are not already familiar with this Canadian Legend in which the identity of the outlaw still eludes the World to this day despite the Trappers remains being exhumed just a few short years ago for DNA to be collected for comparison to the several high profile 'most likely suspects' that had been long suspected as being the Trapper and in each and every case, the DNA ruled every suspect out as being the Trapper. Some had even written books on the topic and claimed so-an-so was the trapper, only for science to absolutely prove that this was not accurate or true.
The Official Title awarded to this loner is 'The Mad Trapper of Rat River.' A name is associated with him after he told turned up in Canada's Yukon Valley and only spoke to one person before building a cabin out in the woods. That person he briefly spoke with was A current RCMP officer. When the Police Officer asked him why he was there and what he intended to do (because the area he had began building his cabin in was ground given to and occupied by Native American) he told the Police Officer that he was just going to do a bit of trapping on Rat River, and told the RCMP officer who was in full uniform that he wants to be left alone and doesn't want anything to do with the RCMP because he said they were not to be trusted.
What follows would read like fiction if you weren't told it was actual events and these things happened. This man, who told the RCMP officer his name was Albert Johnson, started a chain of events off by shooting an Officer of the RCMP when the cop knocked on his cabin's door. I won't give the story to much detail but suffice is it to say that sticks of dynamite were used to blow his cabin up, and upon approaching the ruins the Trapper was heard laughing manically and opened fire before he took of across the Yukon Valleys in Temp. of -50c and was able to not only survive in these freezing conditions but successfully managed to complete a fete that to this no other man has managed to be able to. Even the Native American population of that area today say that to look at what this man did, under the conditions he did them, makes the Native's respect the Trapper and do so when it was the Natives that first alerted the RCMP of 'The Strange White man who keeps messing with our Traps.'
If readers have an hour or so spare and are lovers of a really good mystery, look no further than the link following this sentence:
