At approximately 9:30 am on Sunday, Anchorage police responded to the 1800-block of Kalgin Street to investigate an inactive ankle monitor, they had been alerted by the pretrial division that it had not moved in two days.

The ankle monitor was installed on the leg of 27-year-old Kennan Wegener as a condition of release in a burglary case.

When the officers arrived they could hear the monitor pinging from the basement area and were granted access to that area and a door leading to the garage by the homeowner. In the garage, they would find the remains of the victim, Wegener stuffed into a tote. The body showed signs of being beaten and an investigation was opened.

According to APD, the homeowner told police that they had heard men arguing downstairs on Friday, and later 39-year-old Adam Pringle came upstairs and asked for medical help from the homeowner because he had hit Wegener and said he was no longer breathing. 44-year-old Daniel Rocero would come upstairs later and also tell the homeowner Wegener wasn’t breathing and they were told to call 911. The homeowner did not go down to the area because she was fearful of the two, she told police.

The Crime Scene Team was called in and the remains were turned over to the State Medical Examiner to learn the cause of death.

The investigation would find that Pringle had an ankle monitor installed that showed that he had spent time at the home on Friday and had been at the location during and after the time that Wegener’s monitor had stopped moving.

The investigation, as it progressed was changed to one of homicide and identified 39-year-old Adam D. Pringle and 44-year-old Daniel A. Rocero as suspects in the case.

The two men were taken into custody, interviewed, and remanded to the Anchorage Jail on the charge of Murder II.

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