Richard Mauer, a dauntless, award-winning investigative journalist whose reporting in Alaska exposed political corruption, the failure of the local Roman Catholic archdiocese to punish an abusive priest and the tragic toll of suicide and alcoholism on young Native Alaskans, died on Feb. 23 in Seattle. He was 76.
His wife, Barb Jacobs, said that his death, under hospice care at an assisted living center, was caused by frontotemporal dementia.
