AST revealed that they have made an arrest in the Napakiak City burglary that took place in mid-November of 2018 in that community. The investigation following the burglary found that Alfred Evan, age 52 of Napakiak has gained entry into the building using a crowbar and once inside broke free a bolted down safe […]
(Anchorage) – Lieutenant Governor Kevin Meyer signed an extradition request to the Governor of Maine on March 7 for Steven Harris Downs, a former student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, accused of first-degree murder and first-degree sexual assault in the death of 20-year-old Sophie Sergie in April 1993. “After 26 long years, it […]
Utilizing advances in genetic profiling, the Alaska State Troopers have made an arrest in a 26-year-old Fairbanks cold case murder that occurred at the Bartlett Hall on the UAF campus on April 26th, 1993, AST announced at Anchorage’s Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory. Investigators say that for over 20 years info trickled in the murder case […]
A legal battle over a 10,600-year-old ancient skeleton – called the ‘Spirit Cave Mummy’ – has ended after advanced DNA sequencing found it was related to a Native American tribe. The revelation has been published in Science today as part of a wide-ranging international study that genetically analyzed the DNA of a series of famous and controversial ancient […]