The man convicted of killing two Coast Guard employees at the communications station on the Kodiak Coast Guard base in April of 2012 stood before Judge Ralph Beistline on Tuesday for sentencing. Judge Beistline gave 63-year-old James Wells a sentence of two life terms for the killing of retired U.S. Coast Guard Chief Boatswain’s Mate Richard […]
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 […]