The nonfiction book recounts an apparent double murder on Palmyra Atoll although only one body was ever found; the subsequent arrest, trial, and conviction of Wesley G. "Buck Duane" Walker; and the acquittal of his girlfriend, Jennifer Jenkins, …

Jul 10, 2021 · About six years later, in 1981, a traveling couple stopping over at Palmyra discovered an aluminum trunk that washed ashore and found human bones inside. Dental records confirmed the remains belonged to Muff.

Jun 9, 2010 · The Palmyra atoll murderer who retired to the Willits area after being paroled from federal prison in 2007 died in April. Duane Buck Walker was convicted in 1985 for the grisly murder in 1974 of a San Diego woman on an island paradise on …

Sep 6, 2016 · While researching the case of a San Diego sailing couple brutally murdered on Palmyra Island in 1974, retired L.A. deputy public defender Tom Bucy, made a surprising discovery.

Jun 12, 1985 · Mary McIntosh was waiting for the denouement to a mystery story--a tale, as prosecutors portray it, of piracy and cold-blooded murder on a tropical island.

Aug 8, 2020 · Prosecutors argued that Buck Walker and Stephanie Stearns had been trapped on Palmyra with supplies running out and a boat that was not seaworthy. The pair were desperate enough to murder the Grahams and steal their boat.

Feb 17, 1991 · Federal authorities immediately left for Palmyra, a U.S. possession, to find the Grahams or their bodies. They found no trace of them. With no evidence of murder, a U.S. Attorney in 1975...

Dec 11, 2023 · TWO couples sharing a remote island in the Pacific, the first returned to Hawaii in the other couple’s vessel and the second couple was never seen again, alive. What happened on Palmyra? Now we know some of the truth.

Feb 1, 2021 · In mid-August, two men arrived at the Palmyra lagoon. Norman Sanders and Thomas Wolf were on their way to Samona. The night before Sanders and Wolf were to leave Palmyra they had cocktails with the Grahams aboard the Sea Wind. They cautioned the Grahams to be careful with Roy and Stephanie.

Apr 22, 2014 · While researching the case of a San Diego sailing couple brutally murdered on Palmyra Island in 1974, retired L.A. deputy public defender Tom Bucy, made a surprising discovery.