Anchorage police have uncovered new circumstances and made two arrests in the investigation of the suspicious death of a 29-year-old woman who died at a Tudor Road apartment on November 30th.

The Anchorage police report that they have charged 32-year-old Jesse Hess and 56-year-old George Thomas each with sexual assault of an incapacitated person. The charges are felonies.

In documents revealed in court, it was discovered that Hess called police to report that a woman, he only knew by her first name,who had been drinking at his Tudor Road apartment was found cold, stiff and not breathing. When police arrived,they found the dead woman naked, and partly covered in a sleeping flag or blanket. It was not determined at that time exactly how the woman had died or at what time.

Hess also told police when he was questioned, that he and George Thomas had both had sex with the woman the night before. The woman was described by Hess as an acquaintance, has told police that she arrived there sometime after 6 PM and had began drinking with the men.

Police found evidence of drinking at the apartment. Found were two empty fifths of whiskey, beer cans, and an almost empty pint.

Jesse Hess’s younger brother was at the apartment when the police arrived, as well as the night before. He told police that the two men encouraged the woman to get intoxicated while they only sipped their drinks. Police say the two men then had sex with the woman throughout the night while she was unconscious or even possibly deceased. Although the brother was at the scene during the time in question, he was not charged with any crime.

The investigators in The case applied for and obtained a search warrant for George Thomas’s cell phone. The phone was discovered to contain photographs of naked unconscious woman.

Police are treating the case as suspicious, and say they are only in the early stages of the investigation. Investigators are awaiting the autopsy report and the official cause of death before determining if the men were criminally responsible for the woman’s death.