Cold Cases in Alaska
ColdCaseIndex documents 6 cases in Alaska, dated 1971 to 2020. 2 are recorded as unsolved. The earliest is Robert Hansen Victims (1971) and the most recent is Florence Okpealuk (2020).
- Unsolved 2 (33%)
- Partly resolved 2 (33%)
- Solved or convicted 2 (33%)
Homicide clearance in Alaska, 1965 to 2024
A homicide is "cleared" when police make an arrest or close it by exceptional means, so an uncleared case is not always an unsolved one. Source: Murder Accountability Project analysis of FBI Uniform Crime Report data, as published by Project: Cold Case. These are statewide totals and are separate from the ColdCaseIndex entries listed below.
By type
All Alaska cases
Florence Okpealuk
Florence Okpealuk, a 33-year-old Inupiaq mother originally from Wales, Alaska, was last seen on August 31, 2020, leaving a tent on West Beach about one to two miles outside Nome.
Israel Keyes Victims
Israel Keyes confessed to killing Samantha Koenig, 18, abducted in Anchorage on February 1, 2012, and Bill and Lorraine Currier, who vanished from Essex, Vermont, in June 2011.
Erin Marie Gilbert
Erin Marie Gilbert, a 24-year-old Anchorage nanny, vanished from the Girdwood Forest Fair in Girdwood, Alaska, on July 1, 1995, while on a first date.
Sophie Sergie
Sophie Sergie, 20, of Pitkas Point, Alaska, was found sexually assaulted, stabbed and shot in a dormitory bathroom at the University of Alaska Fairbanks on April 26, 1993.
Eklutna Annie
Eklutna Annie is the name given to an unidentified young woman whose body was found on July 17, 1980, in a shallow grave near Eklutna Lake Road outside Anchorage, Alaska.
Robert Hansen Victims
Robert Hansen was an Anchorage baker who abducted women, flew them to remote Alaska wilderness, and hunted them. He confessed to 17 murders and was convicted in 1984. He died in prison in 2014.