(Anchorage, AK) – Friday, Anchorage Superior Court Judge Jack McKenna sentenced 27-year-old Tyler John Phillips to 75 years with 25 years suspended, for a total 50 years of active jail time, for the June 23, 2021, murder of Kevin Kirlin. On Dec. 24, 2024, an Anchorage jury convicted Phillips of Murder in the First Degree. […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – Friday, a Fairbanks jury returned guilty verdicts against 45-year-old Matthew Myers of Fairbanks for Murder in the Second Degree, Misconduct involving Weapons in the Second Degree, Assault in the Third Degree and Reckless Endangerment. For his convictions, Myers faces a sentence of 15 years to 99 years on the murder charge and a […]
alaskabeacon.com In an extraordinary order, a Ketchikan Superior Court judge has dismissed murder charges against a Metlakatla man, citing a lengthy series of errors, lies and evidence concealed from defense attorneys by the Metlakatla Police Department. The errors, Judge Daniel Doty said last week in an order, were so severe that defendant Isaac Henderson cannot […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Thursday, Superior Court Judge Jack McKenna sentenced 47-year-old Trevor Babcock to 70 years with 20 years suspended, for a total 50 years of active jail time to serve with 10 years of probation to follow for the stabbing death of Elsie Jackson on Nov. 22, 2019. Babcock stabbed Ms. Jackson seven times while […]