(Anchorage, AK) – Friday, Superior Court Judge Kevin Saxby sentenced Jimmy Dale Cates to 312 years in prison for sexually assaulting an Anchorage woman, murdering her, and setting her home on fire. Last June, after a four-week trial, an Anchorage jury found 58-year-old Cates guilty on ten counts. Friday morning, Judge Saxby sentenced Cates to: […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment last week charging an Anchorage man with intentionally lighting an apartment on fire. According to court documents, Paul Bates, 24, started a fire in an apartment building located on East 12th Avenue in Anchorage on Oct. 30, 2022. Bates lived in the apartment complex […]
(Homer, AK) – Thursday, a Homer jury convicted 52-year-old Debra Spencer of one count of first-degree arson and one count of first-degree criminal mischief. At trial, the evidence showed Spencer set fire to Brad Kirby’s home in 2017. Spencer and Kirby were neighbors in the village of Nikolaevsk. Spencer repeatedly threatened Kirby in the months […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Friday, after a four-week trial in front of Superior Court Judge Kevin Saxby, an Anchorage jury found Jimmy Dale Cates guilty of one count of murder in the first degree, two counts of murder in the second degree, one count of attempted sexual assault in the first degree, two counts of arson in […]