Arctic Manhunt: Hunt for the Mad Trapper

The Mad Trapper would be considered a 1% er, even amongst Elite Force Russian/Siberian soldiers. To stay ahead of fully-provisioned local trackers, their dogs and the Cops and then...to climb over the Ice Mountain after all that. Even the local-born trackers could not follow him. That's God-level stuff. ( remembering that he had just about nothing to eat.) ==== Truly incredible, knowing that fully-equipped modern-day mountaineers STILL cannot do it. And he did it during an Arctic Storm. Absolutely mind-blowing.....1 man in 2 million stuff. No way, he was a city boy. The expensive dental work makes me think that he was a hard-core miner that struck it big, in his past and spent a lot of money on his mouth. Which leaves the last intriguing question..... WHAT scared this Superman enough to make him flee to Alaska ???? He certainly wasn't someone who seemed scared of anything, judging by his actions.

"Mad Trapper" he wasn't until they "pestered" him. He just wanted to live alone they started the fight.

Outstanding production. Been following this story for many years. I hope they do the "Familial DNA" and work it that way.

This is amazing. I read the book mad trapper of rat river when I was 15 yrs old. I’m now 56 and I stumbled upon this video and the moment I saw the title I remembered that book and the effect it had on me. I gained my thirst of reading from stories like this one and I find it incredible that 40 odd years later I’m still learning more about that event all those years ago and love the fact others have the same curiosity and passion for what happened back then.

In life, all he wanted was to be left alone and now, even in death, they can’t let him be!

Why spoil a good documentary with the loud music, making it hard to understand what is being said. So many videos are doing the same thing. Very annoying.

There's 2 things I feel should have been included in the fantastic story of the "Mad Trapper". First is the way that Albert wore his snow shoes backward to confound the posse. The other is the contribution of Wop May and his flight from Edmonton to track the man.

As of 2021 they have found ancestors in Sweden. Only a matter of time when he's identified

41:12 What both impresses and confounds me is his arctic survival skills. You don’t learn those skills by trial and error. He had to have prior or a lifetime upbringing in winter conditions . He did not learn those skills as a Chicago gangster.

This is the best documentary I've seen in a while. Thanks for sharing.

There was a movie made about this man. Starring Charles' Bronson and Lee Marvin. " Death Hunt "

My grandfather died for more than 3 decades already. When my grandmother died 16 years after he died, we exhumed my grandpa's remains to use his grave for his wife and all we get are fragments of his skull and the pair of his leg bones.

A corn fed Scandavian able to survive extremely cold weather.

if they are able to find his family... will the family recieve the $2400 dollars the trapper had on his person when killed ?

Thanks for sharing this. It's such an interesting documentary - well done 🙂

Did they ever prove he was stealing from traps? The bunker he built was impressive. Did he know something was going to happen? I think it's sad that he wanted to be left alone but was hunted and shot. By God he gave them a run for their money!

Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson were in a movie about the Mad Trapper. Marvin was the RCMP Sergeant and Bronson was the suspected trapper.

The trapper was a crack shot!! Wow!! And hard tough man!

1. Pilot Wop May was used to find the track with an airplane. 2. Johnson had just "J" Hooked; a trick to throw off trackers. His plan was to circle back behind the posse, but ran smack into them on the river as he mis calculated his and their timing.

Should have left him alone.