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A violent season — Part 6
AUTHOR’S NOTE: After the Ann Pederson suicide and the Jack Griffiths murder in 1961, the former Circus Bar in Soldotna became known as the Hilltop Bar and Café, under new ownership. For a few years, starting in 1962, the violence diminished. Then came a …