Eldest daughter Elishaba Doerksen stretches deep into the history of her abusive father as well as the family’s time in Alaska.
. Kizzia first encountered the family when reporting for the Anchorage Daily News about conflict with the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. The Hale family had been drawn to Alaska in 1998 by the glitter of 17 Permanent Fund dividend checks. After wearing out their welcome in Fairbanks and the Homer-Anchor Point area, they settled onto an inholder property in the park, 14 miles from the small town of McCarthy.
Hale, with a twin brother, was born to a well-to-do Texas family. As a teenager he impregnated the 15-year-old daughter of John Connally, soon to be elected governor of Texas. After the two teens eloped to Florida, the girl had second thoughts and wanted to return home. She then died from being shot in the head, a death eventually ruled “accidental.” In light of the rest of Hale’s life of controlling and abusing others, one has to wonder if something more sinister wasn’t involved.
Hale later became a “hippie,” lived in a series of communes, and fathered multiple children. At one commune, he sighted the naked Kurina, 16 years old, and took up with her. “A cosmic voice from heaven spoke to him,” telling him she would be his wife and bear him many children. He was 33 years old.
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