WASHINGTON — In December 1900, John Wesley Powell received “the most unusual Christmas present of any person in the United States, if not in the world,” reported the Chicago Tribune. The gift for this first director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Bureau of Ethnology was a sealskin sack containing the mummified remains of an Alaska Native. The […]
Alaska State Troopers report that the body of an Alaskan Native female was discovered on the Yukon River approximately 30 miles upriver of Emmonak. AST says the remains were turned over to the State Medical Examiner’s office and has been presumptively identified as 40-year-old Kimberly O’Domin of Marshall. Troopers have been looking for the victim […]
Alaska State Trooper reported on Monday that the human remains discovered by a caller on Saturday evening have been tentatively identified as those of a Soldotna fugitive wanted in an Arson/Shots-Fired incident on October 15th, 2022. Troopers responded to the location near the Funny River after receiving the call and located partial remains, firearms, and […]
Alaska State Troopers responded to an address in Wasilla after receiving a call from the owner of the property there that they had discovered remains on their property on Fridaym the trooper dispatch reported on Monday. When troopers arrived at the location on Friday evening, they found the remains of 37-year-old Jordan Melton in an […]