The organization had previously released a digital reconstruction, and a clay bust of Eklutna Annie had also been created in the past. Kristy Manzanares had been travelling with a large group, including her children, according to witnesses. Police were able to identify Smith, a native of South Africa, from the video after recognizing him from a separate, unspecified investigation, in part because of his accent. According to Hansen, Eklutna Annie had been wearing blue jeans, a sweater, and a brown leather jacket. The woman, who has not yet been identified, is described as having long dark hair and possibly being Alaska Native. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Two days later, both Brehmer and McIntosh were interviewed. Hoffman was allegedly best friends with Brehmer, and she was chosen by the group as the victim, the documents say. A man accused of killing a woman and recording it on an SD card later found in the street has been indicted in the murder of a second woman in Alaska, authorities announced Thursday. Brehmer and McIntosh used Leylands pickup on June 2 to take Hoffman on a hike at Thunderbird Falls, a popular location about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Anchorage. It did not include those deaths. McKinnon said police are still trying to piece together what Ritchie did on a daily basis during the months he is believed to have been back in Anchorage. The memory card was labeled "homicide at midtown Marriott" and contained 39 images and 12 videos of an assault and murder. It was first broadcast on May 9th, 2021. Resources: If you are facing threatened or actual domestic violence, please discreetly call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or Abused Womens Aid in Crisis in Anchorage at 907-272-0100. "No More Silence": Her Kidnapping, Sexual Assault and Murder Stunned a All rights reserved. A 19-year-old from Anchorage, Alaska, was allegedly killed by her best friend and several other teen accomplices after they were promised millions of dollars for video evidence of the killing by a man who had catfished them. His hair was long. Pilot Projects Launched to Address Missing and Murdered Indigenous Gov. The SD card also contained images of the womans body being removed from a hotel room and transported in a black truck, according to charging documents. Fox News Flash top headlines for Oct. 17 are here. He stepped out of the car and said goodbye to his mom and Marcy. A 48-year-old Anchorage man was charged with murder after someone found a digital card containing dozens of videos and photos that authorities say show him beating and killing a woman in a. All the white people are getting done first while the Natives get pushed to the back burner, Bill wrote in a Facebook message, when asked about the case. Nancy Furlow . Ritchie grew up in Anchorage and was a standout athlete at East High School in the mid-1990s before involvement in drugs led to a felony record that derailed his life. Anchorage Police investigate the scene where human remains we found at mile 108 of the Seward Highway near Rainbow on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News). Smith has a truck matching the one in the images, and pings from his cellphone put him along Rainbow Valley Road off the Seward Highway, near where the womans body was found, within minutes of the last time-stamped photos of the body, the affidavit said. Digital evidence and statements show Brehmer was communicating with and sending videos and/or photographs of the events surrounding the incident to Schilmiller at his directive through the duration of the event, documents say. The victim was Robert Pfeil, a 55-year-old senior pilot for Alaska Airlines, who was shot from another car as he drove from work on Oct. 12, 1985. An autopsy report concluded that she had been killed by a single stab wound to the back. She was aged between 16 and 25 at the time of her death, and her body was discovered several months after her murder. APD officer Arn Salao was wounded and the suspect, James Dale Ritchie, was killed in the early-morning shootout. In arguments included with MacDonalds order, public defenders described an agency at its breaking point, struggling to retain experienced attorneys and unable to compete for recruits against cities with a lower cost of living and comparable pay. Hansen specifically stated she was his first murder victim. In that case, her father was charged with the killing. But its workload is growing more quickly just between the 2017 and 2018 fiscal years, it saw a 16 percent increase in felony cases statewide, according to data the agency has presented to the Legislature. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. On the whole they are to be commended for all they do in the face of serious institutional limits, he wrote. Man arrested for murder after SD card with video of crime found on street. (Google). or redistributed. The SD card, reportedly discovered lying in the street in an Anchorage neighborhood, was labeled homicide at midtown Marriott and contained graphic, time-stamped images and video recordings of a man beating and choking a naked woman, according to charging documents. Online court records did not list an attorney for Schilmiller. Thats going to escalate things tremendously because when were talking about misuse of substances, that inhibition is gone. All rights reserved. shut down anelementary school and a middle school, don't attribute 2016's increase in homicides to any one cause, mother accused of suffocating her infant daughter, killed in a downtown shootout with police, Here are the most-read Alaska Dispatch News stories of 2016. "Clearance" means police have either made an arrest, prosecutors have declined to file charges due to self-defense or some other reason, or the suspect died. Rodgers went on to kill another man in Anchorage and shoot two others who survived before his 26-hour rampage ended. In February 2017, 37-year-old Brandy Sullivan, an Alaska Airlines customer-service agent who lived in an upscale Anchorage suburb, was allegedly shot and killed by her estranged husband.. In that case, her father was charged with the killing. According to police, the arrest came after someone reported finding a digital storage device containing video of the killing. Mar 6th 600p DARLA Recently retired newly weds embark on their third tropical cruise in less than year. Some people have speculated gangs are to blame for the bloodshed. In a lot of ways I think it is generational," McKinnon said. He was unable to "remember whether she was a prostitute or [a] dancer", although he did state he believed she was from Kodiak, Alaska. Resources can be found by calling Alaska 211 or visiting the State of Alaskas website to find treatment options. Her body was found along the Seward Highway south of Anchorage on Oct. 2. We learned sometimes the hard way in the past.". With the SD card, one of the first questions that detectives had to answer was, Was this staged, or did this really happen? The race is on: What to know about the 2023 Iditarod, No injuries in downtown Anchorage commercial building collapse. He said Eklutna Annie was either an exotic dancer from a local bar or a prostitute and that she was his first murder victim,[15] adding that she had been murdered in the fall or early winter of 1979. Police said the body was found near milepost 108 of Seward Highway on Oct. 2. An ongoing Daily News and ProPublica investigation has found that one in three Alaska communities has no local law enforcement of any kind. [5][3][10], An autopsy of Eklutna Annie's body revealed she was petite in stature,[11] and most likely white, although she may have had a degree of Native American heritage. The need for nine more lawyers was based on a 45-year-old standard set by the American Bar Association that public defenders annual caseloads should not exceed 150 felonies. While the agencys inflation-adjusted spending has doubled in the past 30 years, its felony caseload has tripled, it says. Police immediately suspected John Newman's nephew, 23-year-old Kirby Anthoney. The state of Alaskas criminal justice system is operating on the fringes, barely able to protect against the deprivation of fundamental rights, barely able to respond in a professionally responsible manner to Alaska (s) rising violent crime rates, Fairbanks Superior Court Judge Michael A. MacDonald wrote in a blistering Aug. 30 decision, which has previously not been reported. Shannon Duke. He also told officials Brehmer communicated with him throughout the murder, and sent Snapchat photographs and videos of Hoffman while bound and then after the murder. Federal authorities allege Brehmer produced sexually explicit videos involving a minor and sent them to Schilmiller. ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A Utah couple was celebrating their wedding anniversary aboard an Alaska cruise when the husband was found covered in blood next to his wife's lifeless body, a frenzy of . Doubek and Gardner shared a home in a Wasilla neighborhood off of Snowshoe Lane. Michelle Theriault Boots is a reporter who covers news and features about life in Alaska, and has been focusing on corrections and psychiatric care issues in the state. "I'd say a great number of our citizens don't engage in any activity that's considered dangerous.". He has since been released, now in the custody of authorities, and is charged with first- and second-degree murder. The State Medical Examiner Office is working to confirm her identity and manner of death. All rights reserved. CLICK TO VISIT THE ALL-NEW FOXBUSINESS.COM. Warming water may be to blame. The images showed a naked woman being beaten on the floor of a hotel room, according to the affidavit. Thim said the arrest hinged on two aspects of the investigation: the citizen who chose to call police when they found that card, and the coordination between law enforcement agencies handling the separate cases of the videos and the body. Police said the body was found near milepost 108 of Seward Highway on Oct. 2. Our salaries up here used to be the draw, an attorney for the agency said. The death on Tuesday night triggered a lockdown of the 3,400-passenger ship. It had 39 images and 12 videos that recorded the alleged crime. Upon examining the card, police said it"contained several videos which appeared to show the assault and subsequent homicide of an adult female" and an investigation was opened. "What we're seeing is that when we ask the community for assistance, they really respond to us," he said. Michelle Theriault Boots is a reporter who covers news and features about life in Alaska, and has been focusing on corrections and psychiatric care issues in the state. In a separate federal investigation rising from the investigation, Schilmiller and Brehmer were indicted Tuesday on federal child pornography charges, including production and coercion and enticement of a minor. ' said APD communications director MJ Thim. Another factor no one could have predicted: James Dale Ritchie, who could prove to bethe most prolific killer in AnchoragesinceJoshua Wade, though APD is not ready to call him that. Police say the majority of the deaths fall into the same tragic but predictable circumstances that thread through homicides every year: domestic violence, personal disputes escalated by a weapon, robberies gone bad. Anchorage police say they've arrested a man for the murder of a woman whose body had been dumped a week ago on the Seward Highway south of Anchorage. Cynthia Hoffman. According to a press release from the Alaska Department of Law, Charlie was sentenced to 75 years . die.". 1 language. Don't kill me!" More than three dozenimages and 12 videos were stored on the card, according to the charging documents. Anchorage Police Chief Justin Doll told reporters Abouchuk's family reported her missing in February, but he said she had. They were all going to spend Christmas together the next day. Armando Velador Padilla, 46, was taken into custody after the. The race is on: What to know about the 2023 Iditarod, No injuries in downtown Anchorage commercial building collapse. [9][12] She stood between 4 ft 11 in and 5 ft 3 in, and her hair color ranged from light brown to strawberry-blond. All but one of the victims in those cases were female. He also allegedly told authorities that he and Brehmer discussed killing another person, but the plan was abandoned, and he admitted to blackmailing Brehmer into raping people. 2022 Anchorage Daily News. Legal Statement. Police point at recent hiring of new officers as an effort to make the city safer. But the same weapon found on Ritchie at the time of his death an uncommon, vintage Colt Python .357 was used to kill four other people in a two-month span: Brianna Foisy, 20, and Jason Netter Sr., 41, on the Ship Creek Trail July 3, and Bryant "Brie" De Husson, 25, and Kevin Turner, 34, at Valley of the Moon Park on Aug. 28. [16], Hansen was sentenced to 461 years in prison without the possibility of parole for her murder and three others. According to court documents, Denali Brehmer, 18, confessed to killing Cynthia Hoffman on June 2 at the . [17], To date, Roxane Easland, Karen Evan, Megan Emerick, and Teresa Davis have been ruled out as being Eklutna Annie. Her eldest daughter Chloe was killed with her. In 2016, some 34 people were killed by homicide in Anchorage. Catfishing is when a person creates a fake identity on a social network account to deceive a specific victim. Anchorage Police Chief Justin Doll told reporters Abouchuk's family reported her missing in February, but he said she had last been seen by them in July 2018. If you or someone you know is struggling with a substance use disorder, help is available. Published: Jan. 27, 2022 at 4:27 PM PST. He always committed his murders at night, often around midnight or a short time after. "One of the little girls from that room came running out, calling for help, that her parents had been in a fight," one passenger told CBS News. The record in this case should reflect that, as a result of the policy and budget choices made by the legislative and executive branches the people of Alaska must tolerate long delays in the prosecution of the type of crimes charged in this case crimes against women, crimes fueled by substance abuse, crimes against law enforcement officers, crimes against rural Alaskans, the judge wrote. Her fiance was killed. Veronica Abouchuck, left, and Kathleen Henry. After troopers arrived, Doubek was given first aid and taken to a hospital. Alaska woman pleads guilty to killing 'best friend' after man catfished Public records show that he lives in a home in the Geneva Woods neighborhood, and a social media profile that appears to belong to him says he married an Anchorage woman in 2014. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Alaska teens hoping to cash in on a $9 million offer from a Midwest millionaire brutally killed a developmentally disabled woman on a popular trail outside Anchorage, shooting her in the back of the head and dumping her body in a river, authorities allege. She had hit the wall, an acting supervisor later told the judge. Moren, a patron at the bar, was shot and killed in the alley as the bar was closing early in the morning on Dec. 24. Last year, Steiner, who was then the agencys director, warned that his attorneys were at their limit and would have to start refusing to handle new cases without a $1 million boost to their $26 million budget. Theres also the question of how an SD card containing images and videos of a slaying, labeled Homicide at midtown Marriott, came to be discarded on a busy Anchorage street. Here, "it's more groups of people who know each other and engage in high-risk behavior together," he said. More than a few cases seem to trace back to a personal slight or insult that escalated into violence, said Lt. John McKinnon, head of APD's homicide unit. Brehmer agreed to commit the murder for him.. "That's our plan to create a better police presence," McKinnon said. Witness memories fade, Skidmore said. APDsays when Moren left the Gaslight Lounge later that night,he was followedby Roy Schauer, 46. On Thursday, a grand jury indicted Smith onmurder and evidence tampering charges in Abouchuk's death. What's the least amount of exercise we can get away with? Last week, 23-year-old Darla Velador of Anchorage was stabbed to death. The Anchorage Police Department has identified the victim as Kathleen J. Henry, 30, according to a statement released Thursday afternoon. Federal Jury Convicts Anchorage Man on Murder and Drug Charges (Loren Holmes / ADN). A man has been arrested in connection to the murder of a woman aboard a cruise ship off the coast of Alaska, police say, in what has been described as a "domestic disturbance". Kyle Hopkins and Nat Herz, Anchorage Daily News and Alaska Public Media. Many questions remain unanswered Wednesday, including the identity of the woman. Slawomir Markiewicz, the Anchorage Police Department's top detective. He was sentenced to 498 years in prison for the murder spree. An Alaska resident found a stray SD card lying on the street in late September and discovered gruesome content inside: images and video of a woman appearing to be assaulted and murdered. [4][7][n 1], Eklutna Annie's body was markedly decomposed, indicating her death had occurred months prior. A 22-year-old Alaska woman pleaded guilty to murdering her 19-year-old "best friend" in 2019 after a man who was allegedly catfishing her offered her $9 million to kill someone.