Yukon who is who

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Robert Olson (1940 - 2004)
	
Robert Olson came to the Yukon in 1990 to help his father run the Caribou Hotel in Carcross. His father died five years later, and Robert became the sole proprietor. He spent time in and out of the territory before settling in Carcross permanently. He ran and lost a strong campaign against Audrey McLaughlin in 1993 under the National Party banner. In 2005, Dean Boucher (Dean Johns) and Mark Lewis Lange were charged with his murder.((Barbara McLeod, "Two men charged in murder of controversial Carcross hotelier." //The Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 7 January 2005.))  
The men robbed the hotel and beat Olson and then put him in the back of a pickup and drove to Whitehorse. They arrived to find Olson dead and dumped his body in a ditch in the Wolf Creek subdivision. Police found Olson’s body on 27 December. Boucher turned himself in that day and Lange surrendered himself a few days later. They were convicted and received life sentences.((“Both accused found guilty of murder.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 13 June 2006.))