The Cold-Blooded New Year’s Eve Murder

On December 31, 1915, in Douglas, two men stood outside a restaurant in broad daylight.
Minutes later, one of them was dead.

Nick Facicelli walked up behind Mike Defino and fired four shots at point-blank range. An Alaskan newspaper would later describe it as “one of the most cold-blooded murders to happen in the North.”

No chase.
No warning.
Just violence — on the last day of the year.

Old headlines have a way of reminding us how sudden, public, and unforgiving crime once was.