Anchorage police say they've arrested a man for the murder of a woman whose body had been dumped a week ago on the Seward Highway south of Anchorage. [sic] A manwith some sort of English accent can be heard in the video as well. A man accused of killing a woman and recording it on an SD card later found in the street has been indicted in the murder of a second woman in Alaska, authorities announced Thursday. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Brehmer then enlisted the help of four friends, including 19-year-old Caleb Leyland, 16-year-old Kayden McIntosh and two other unnamed juveniles, to plan and carry out the murder at Schilmillers direction, according to the documents. An update released by Anchorage Police four months later stated they had taken a then 21-year-old named Orion Lind into custody but no charges were brought over Brandon's murder. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. The memory card was labeled "homicide at midtown Marriott" and contained 39 images and 12 videos of an assault and murder. Last week, 23-year-old Darla Velador of Anchorage was stabbed to death. Federal authorities allege Brehmer produced sexually explicit videos involving a minor and sent them to Schilmiller.
Press Release - Anchorage Man Sentenced to Ninty-Nine Years - Alaska 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. "That tells us other people believe it is a good place," he said. He moved back to Alaska in the spring of 2016. But detectives had gotten video of the homicide days prior to finding the victims body, police said. Thim declined to say anything about the other investigation, or whether Smith is a suspect in other crimes. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. Policeinvestigate the scene of an officer-involved shooting in downtown Anchorage onNovember 12, 2016. MacDonalds ruling addresses some of the most urgent problems facing Alaskas criminal justice system, where policymakers and the public have increasingly turned their focus in recent years. They were all going to spend Christmas together the next day. Doubek slept downstairs. He isnow charged with murder. I'll stand behind him, beside him, while he's going through this," Bissland added. His hair was long.
Passengers describe learning woman died aboard Alaska cruise ship Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Police had found Henrys remains on the side of a highway on Oct. 2. A 48-year-old Anchorage man was charged with murder after someone found a digital card containing dozens of videos and photos that authorities say show him beating and killing a woman in a Midtown hotel room. Police point at recent hiring of new officers as an effort to make the city safer. A Wasilla woman was shot four times at home Sunday night and her husband is charged with her murder, according to Alaska State Troopers. [1], Last edited on 18 February 2023, at 21:52, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, "Eklutna Annie: Put The Focus Back on Me! Moody, the Alaska Public Defender Agency supervisor, said there are currently 11 vacant attorney positions out of 98 statewide. ", "Alaska State Troopers: Unidentified Body", "Serial Killer Robert Hansen Dies in Anchorage", "Serial Killer's Victim Exhumed In Alaska: Who Is 'Horseshoe Harriet'? ' said APD communications director MJ Thim. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Doubek and Gardner shared a home in a Wasilla neighborhood off of Snowshoe Lane. This years Iditarod field is the smallest in history. Smith was taken into custody on an arrest warrant for first-degree murder Tuesday afternoon at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, police said in an online release announcing the arrest Wednesday. Warming water may be to blame. The case marks the second killing in less than six months involving a video. Other images showed her being strangled by a man who was yelling at her to die in what sounded like a foreign accent, at one point stomping on her throat. A handwritten note laid on a nearby bench with the words Shes havin an affair proof is in the phone. has been charged with first- and second-degree murder, and was taken to Anchorage Jail. Catfishing is when a person creates a fake identity on a social network account to deceive a specific victim. Anchorage police investigate a fatal shooting at the Holiday Gas Station located on Abbott Road on Wednesday evening, May 25, 2016. [8] He died in prison in August 2014. But at one of the many stops along the way, a grizzly discovery is made when crew membersfind the widower's body crammed into her own suitcase. Clark asked that he be appointed a public defender and set his bail at $500,000 cash appearance bond and a $250,000 cash performance bond. "That's our plan to create a better police presence," McKinnon said. APDsays when Moren left the Gaslight Lounge later that night,he was followedby Roy Schauer, 46. The show Very Scary People profiled Robert Hansen in "The Butcher Baker". Michelle Theriault Boots is a reporter who covers news and features about life in Alaska, and has been focusing on corrections and psychiatric care issues in the state. Many questions remain unanswered Wednesday, including the identity of the woman. Veronica Abouchuck, left, and Kathleen Henry. The Alaska Public Defender Agencys longtime director, Quinlan Steiner, announced his resignation in April. Anchorage Police Chief Justin Doll told reporters Abouchuk's family reported her missing in February, but he said she had last been seen by them in July 2018. In February 2017, 37-year-old Brandy Sullivan, an Alaska Airlines customer-service agent who lived in an upscale Anchorage suburb, was allegedly shot and killed by her estranged husband.. A millionaire widower and her teenaged daughter take a fivestar cruise together. An Indiana man is accused of " catfishing " an Alaska teenager and convincing her to murder her supposed best friend for $9 million with the help of four others. Anna Bill, a former Mountain Village police officer honored by the Alaska Federation of Natives for her advocacy on behalf of Alaska Native women and children, said the homicide was devastating for the victims family. A Snapchat video showed two of the teens accused of killing 19-year-old Cynthia Hoffman near the Thunderbird Falls trailhead in June apparently discussing the crime. But there are plenty of public defender offices in the Lower 48 who are offering those exact salaries right now with lower cost of living and more stability in their government and their budget., The public defender agency asked that MacDonald be disqualified from the Mountain Village case because of his bias against the agency and Walters, the defendant. Brian Steven Smith is shown being arraigned on a charge of first-degree murder at the Anchorage Jail courtroom Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019, in Anchorage, Alaska. Armando Velador Padilla, 46, was taken into custody after the. CALIFORNIA MAN SENTENCED AFTER FORMER ROOMMATE FOUND DEAD, BLUDGEONED INSIDE WALL. The FBI is investigating the death because it occurred in US waters. The three cases police still considerunsolved are the deaths of Marcus Cosby Jr., 24, Elijah Zeller, 18, and Ian Bobich, 29. But a bail memorandum filed in the case . Of the34 homicides in 2016, all but three are considered solved, with police identifying at least a main suspect, according to Sgt. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen). Legal Statement. At the sentencing hearing, the State presented video . The state of Alaskas criminal justice system is operating on the fringes, barely able to protect against the deprivation of fundamental rights, barely able to respond in a professionally responsible manner to Alaska (s) rising violent crime rates, Fairbanks Superior Court Judge Michael A. MacDonald wrote in a blistering Aug. 30 decision, which has previously not been reported. Shannon Duke. Anthoney and his girlfriend moved to Anchorage from Twin Falls, Idaho, in 1985 when authorities in Idaho accused him of raping and brutally beating a twelve-year-old girl at a campground near Twin Falls. A district attorney has been selected to oversee the Bethel office and Skidmore said he is in talks with the North Slope Borough in hopes of funding the first Utqiagvik-based district attorney in several years. Market data provided by Factset. [16], Hansen was sentenced to 461 years in prison without the possibility of parole for her murder and three others. Igou pleaded guilty on November 5, 2020 to the September 10, 2017 murder of Aurora Paint Company co-owner Gregory Gill. Advocate for missing and murdered women, reflecting on the ongoing efforts to identify Eklutna Annie[18], Eklutna Annie remains unidentified. [3][4], Eklutna Annie was murdered by serial killer Robert Hansen, most likely in 1979. The need for nine more lawyers was based on a 45-year-old standard set by the American Bar Association that public defenders annual caseloads should not exceed 150 felonies.
Police have not identified the victim, who is said to have been killed during the first week of September. 1 language. [9][12] She stood between 4 ft 11 in and 5 ft 3 in, and her hair color ranged from light brown to strawberry-blond. [5][3], This unidentified decedent became known as Eklutna Annie due to the location in which her body was discovered. / 61.1254; -149.5234. Troopers arrived hours later and interviewed Walters, who admitted to beating Queenie, his 22-year-old girlfriend, with his fists and a broom handle. AnAlaska man accused of brutally assaulting and murdering a woman who was seen strangled in videos found ona digital memory cardhasbeen charged with another death, authorities said Thursday. He told Anchorage District Court Judge Brian Clark that he had about $2,000 in total saved. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News). Detectives recognized Brian Steven Smith from the graphic videos because Smith is involved in a separate ongoing investigation, said Anchorage Police Department spokesman MJ Thim. Reporter Jeff Parrott contributed to this story. But its workload is growing more quickly just between the 2017 and 2018 fiscal years, it saw a 16 percent increase in felony cases statewide, according to data the agency has presented to the Legislature. She covers breaking news, the Mat-Su region, aviation and general assignments. Published: Jul.
Anchorage police say 8-month-old baby found safe; father arrested on July 27, 2017 / 10:16 AM / CBS News A suspect is in custody Thursday morning after a woman was found dead on a cruise ship in Alaska. MacDonald serves as the presiding judge for the Fairbanks-based Fourth Judicial District. On Sept. 30, someone called Anchorage police claiming to have found an SD card containing video of a homicide.
Man accused of killing woman, recording it is charged in 2nd Alaska murder Alaska cops charged an Anchorage man with murder Tuesday after shocking videos found on a mysterious memory card allegedly captured the suspect assaulting and killing a woman whose remains. Theres also the question of how an SD card containing images and videos of a slaying, labeled Homicide at midtown Marriott, came to be discarded on a busy Anchorage street. He has not yet entered a plea. Smith appeared in court Wednesday, where a judge said he'd be appointed a public defender. Contact her at zhollander@adn.com. He does not look like the young man he portrayed himself to look like, he is not a millionaire and he lives in Indiana, court documents say. What science tells us about the afterlife. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. APD provided a recent photograph of Ritchie. As Merritt approachedAndrew Robertson-Goughnor, police said, Robertson-Goughnor shot him. McIntosh was arrested, but Brehmer denied any involvement in the death. (Anchorage, AK) - On April 22, 2021, thirty-one year-old Randall Igou was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Eric Aarseth for Murder in the First Degree. According to the affidavit, Doubek, who had reportedly struggled with substance abuse, had been growing increasingly paranoid that his wife was having an affair, and because of his behavior, Gardner had considered divorcing him. The SD card was labeled Homicide at midtown Marriott, according to the affidavit. In 2017, the year Queenie was killed, the rate of women killed by men in Alaska was three times the national average and the highest in the United States, according to the Violence Policy Center. In 2011 and 2012, Ritchie was named to the President's List at Blue Mountain Community College in Weyers Cave, in western Virginia, according to school documents obtained by Alaska Dispatch News. or redistributed. "She championed any child. [Here are the most-read Alaska Dispatch News stories of 2016]. Alaska copscharged an Anchorage man with murderTuesday after shocking videos found on a mysterious memory card allegedly capturedthe suspectassaulting and killing a woman whose remains were recently discoverednear a highway. Police were able to identify Smith, a native of South Africa, from the video after recognizing him from a separate, unspecified investigation, in part because of his accent. An autopsy report concluded that she had been killed by a single stab wound to the back. A 22-year-old Alaska woman pleaded guilty to murdering her 19-year-old "best friend" in 2019 after a man who was allegedly catfishing her offered her $9 million to kill someone. The callertold police the memory card was found layingin the middle of the street in the Fairview neighborhood of Anchorage. Schauer shot Moren several times, police say, though they have not said why. According to court papers, the group went off trail and followed a path to the bank of the Eklutna River, where Hoffman was bound, shot and thrown into the river. During an arraignment at Anchorage Jail Court Wednesday, a judge set Smiths bail at $750,0000 cash and appointed a public defender to represent him. Published: Jan. 27, 2022 at 4:27 PM PST. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. Delay is always the friend of the defense because it makes it harder for prosecutors to put on their case.. "Same exactly happens to homicide cases. He was unable to "remember whether she was a prostitute or [a] dancer", although he did state he believed she was from Kodiak, Alaska. Anchorage police say theyve arrested a man for the murder of a woman whose body had been dumped a week ago on the Seward Highway south of Anchorage. Ritchie is considered the main suspect in those killings, said Markiewicz. He was returning to Anchorage, where he lives, Thim said. We learned sometimes the hard way in the past.".
Federal Jury Convicts Anchorage Man on Murder and Drug Charges (Scott Jensen / Alaska Dispatch News). In January 2013, an associate professor wrote a letter of recommendation for Ritchie, who was apparently applying for an internship. Gardner slept upstairs. Don't kill me!" Mike Dunleavy named Steiners replacement Tuesday: Samantha Cherot of Anchorage, who has worked both as a public defender and a private criminal defense and family attorney. It did not include those deaths. Thim said Smith was subsequently connected to the remains discovered on the highway through hotel records and cell-phone data. A man charged with murder is accused of fatally stabbing his 23-year-old daughter Friday in Anchorage's Fairview neighborhood. It had 39 images and 12 videos that recorded the alleged crime. Ian Bobich, 29, was found shot to death outside this Elm Street apartment building just before midnight Monday, Oct. 24, 2016, on Government Hill. TENNESSEE COLLEGE STUDENT ACCUSED OF FATAL SHOOTING IN DORM. Copyright 2021 KTUU. Brian Steven Smith, 48, admitted to detectives that he was the man inimages and videos from the card, according to a document filed by the state Department of Law. Then, on Wednesday, Oct. 2, the womans body was found along Turnagain Arm, near the Rainbow trailhead.