Early Sunday morning at 1:30 am, Soldotna Dispatch was notified by officials at the Spring Creek Correctional Facility in Seward of an assault that occurred between two inmates there. The man, identified as 29-year-old Elihu Gillespie, was found unresponsive in his cell in the high security area of the prison. Gillespie was transported from the […]
State and Federal authorities announced at a press conference on Friday morning that convicted killer Joshua Wade has admitted to three additional murders in the state of Alaska besides the two murders he admitted to in court as part of a plea deal to escape the death penalty in 2010. In addition to those two murders, […]
A man who had spent 24 years seven months and 20 days behind bars in New York before having his conviction vacated in April is now in the beginning stages of suing the city of New York for $162 million. It was in 1989 that Jonathan Fleming, now 51-years-old, was convicted of the killing his friend […]
The man accused and who pleaded guilty in the 1993 rape and killing of 92-year-old Grace Mae Odle in Ogden Utah, 40-year-old Stephen Ellenwood, received life in prison for aggravated murder on Tuesday. It was about 2am on May 3, 1993 that Ellenwood climbed through a window at an Ogden retirement home before sexually assaulting […]