Robert Johnson, a 22-year-old white male grocery clerk from Anchorage, Alaska, was found beaten to death in Earthquake Park in 1973. Several contemporary accounts and later retrospectives place the killing on June 3, 1973, and describe the attack as a brutal beating that ended his life in the wooded expanse just west of the city near the bluff above Cook Inlet.

Investigators focused on a drifter named Charles Louman Meach III, who surfaced in Anchorage that year. Meach admitted involvement and was charged in Johnson’s death; in court he was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a state hospital rather than prison. That verdict influenced later debate and changes to Alaska’s insanity defense standards.

If anyone knew Robert Johnson, his routine, or was in Earthquake Park around June 3, 1973, any information could still help clarify events from that summer night.