It was certainly poetic justice when a man suspected of killing a 61-year-old Washington state woman back in 1995 when it was discovered he died after being electrocuted.
The man they believe killed Barnes is Douglas Keith Krohne, who would have been 33 at the time. He died in 2016 in Nogales, Arizona after he was electrocuted while installing some sort of TV antenna that hit power lines, investigators said.
The men lived on the ship for months, but pressure from the ice began to slowly crush it. On Oct. 27, 1915, Shackleton gave the order to abandon the Endurance. The men were told to gather no more than 2 pounds each of personal gear from the ship; much of the ship's supplies had already become inaccessible because of broken timbers in the hull. The Endurance finally broke up and sank into the Weddell Sea on Nov. 21, 1915.
The crew made a new camp on an ice floe, and any ambition to cross Antarctica dissipated. The mission was now one of survival, a saga that would stretch into August 1916 before all the men were rescued.
The Aurora also became trapped in ice. Three men from that voyage died before the final members of the crew were rescued in early 1917.
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