Death of Albert Johnson, Mad Trapper of Rat River
1986
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Albert Johnson was a loner, a deadly shot, who in 1932 triggered a grueling manhunt that has become an Arctic legend. For over six weeks, amid blizzards and numbing cold, he eluded a posse of trappers, First Nations and RCMP, who for the very first time used a two-way radio and an airplane. During this northern saga Johnson was involved in four shoot-outs, killing one policeman and gravely wounding two other men before being shot to death. Over a half-century later, an intriguing mystery Who was Albert Johnson?
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