Alaska Missing Woman, JUNEAU — Authorities say they have foun

Alaska Missing Woman, JUNEAU — Authorities say they have found the body of a woman visiting Alaska’s capital city who did not return to her cruise ship from a hike she said she was The federal government has opened a cold case office in Anchorage, Alaska, to focus on missing Alaska Native and American Indian women. As Anchorage police work on an open missing persons case for 37-year-old Jessie Tessier, the woman’s family has been holding out hope that they might come An all-hands-on-deck search for a missing Ketchikan woman continued on Wednesday, two days after she was reported missing to authorities. On February 5, 2026, 36-year-old Kirby Calderwood pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the case of missing Homer, Alaska, resident Anesha “Duffy” Murnane. The A search continued on Tuesday for a woman who disappeared into a partially frozen river in Alaska over the weekend. Authorities were searching for a woman visiting Alaska 's capital city who did not return to her cruise ship from a hike she said she was taking, officials said A Missing Woman's Case Is Re-Examined 18 Years Later in Evil in Alaska New Oxygen true crime series Fatal Frontier: Evil in Alaska focuses on the The second full day of the search for a missing Ketchikan woman is wrapping up with few leads. Authorities have found the body of a woman visiting Alaska’s capital city who did not return to her cruise ship from a hike she said she was taking. The sister and boyfriend of Lauren Cameron, who went missing in Hawaii last week after reportedly being swept away in strong currents, are mourning after the Authorities were searching for a woman visiting Alaska's capital city who did not return to her cruise ship from a hike she said she was taking, officials said A Norwegian Cruise Line passenger was reported missing in Alaska. Law enforcement is searching for a 62-year-old cruise passenger who went missing in Alaska while the ship was docked there. These women are among the hundreds of Alaska Native or American Indian women who have gone missing over the years, and in many instances, their cases have gone cold. Posts in Missing CANCEL LOCATE: MISSING JUVENILE JACOB CLARK Missing August 13, 2025 CANCEL LOCATE: MISSING PERSON TERRY VANZANTEN The body of a Norwegian Cruise Line passenger who went missing in Alaska has been recovered. NamUs and the Alaska Missing Person Clearinghouse collects information about missing persons and the circumstances in hopes A missing 18-year-old woman was found killed two years after she vanished in Alaska, troopers said. A search is ongoing for a 62-year-old cruise passenger who went missing while on a hike in Alaska, authorities said Thursday. Police: Woman arrested after found living with missing man’s decomposing body Police say a 39-year-old woman has been arrested after she was found living with a missing person's decomposing body. Gilbert was 24 at the time of her ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Family members and the Anchorage Police Department are seeking information about the whereabouts of Saria Barney Search efforts continued Tuesday for a woman who disappeared after jumping into the North Fork of Eagle River to try to save her family’s dog after it fell through Officials in Alaska plan to resume on Tuesday a search for a woman who went into an Anchorage area river over the weekend to save a dog but disappeared under Nearly five years after Cassandra Boskofsky disappeared, her loved ones and supporters are protesting what they say has been Anchorage police’s Alaska State Troopers said the dog's owner disappeared near North Fork Eagle River Trail on Saturday afternoon after her dog went into the river. [4] In a recent study by the Urban Indian Health Institute, Anchorage was listed as having the third highest number of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIW), and Alaska ranks fourth in Authorities have called off the search for Mary Dawn Wilson, whose 2-year-old grandchild was found inside her abandoned vehicle in Alaska last week Displaying red hand prints over their mouths as they protested in the rain, nearly five years after Cassandra Boskofsky disappeared, her loved ones and supporters used the symbol of the Missing On Dec. Marites Buenafe, 62, texted family that she was going for a hike in Juneau on July 1, but did not return to the Norwegian Bliss Rescuers in Alaska said on Thursday that they had recovered the body of a Kentucky woman who went missing after she left a cruise ship to go on a hike Hilary Swank talks Alaska Daily, the importance of telling the stories of missing and murdered Indigenous Women, and Cobra Kai. A podcast host is picking up where authorities left off Joseph Balderas, 36, was last seen on June 24, . The Federal Bureau of Investigation has joined the search for 33-year-old Florence Okpealuk, of Nome, who was reported missing on August 31. Alaska state troopers said a couple was walking their dogs near the Eagle River An Alaska Army National Guard helicopter crew found the body of a missing cruise passenger Thursday night after she went for a hike near Juneau. As of Ahead of the Alaska Daily mid-season premiere on March 2, Jeff Perry exclusively told E! News about working with Hilary Swank on the ABC series about missing The Alaska Department of Public Safety and the Anchorage Police Department announced Tuesday that they are publishing new quarterly reports specifically Hilary Swank spoke to Newsweek about her new ABC show "Alaska Daily" and explained how the real-life cases the show is based on convinced her to join. Jael Tiara Hamblen (Anchorage, Alaska, 2014) Jael Tiara Hamblen was out having dinner with her roommate, Kendra Vincent Estrada, on the night of October 11, PALMER, Alaska (KTUU) - Days after being reported missing, a Palmer woman was found dead near her home in the Mat-Su. Missing Persons Bulletins are created at the request of an assigned law enforcement agency if it is determined by the agency that a bulletin dissemination would allow the general public to realistically An "active search" effort was called off Thursday for a woman who disappeared under the ice of a frozen Anchorage, Alaska-area river last weekend while trying Body of missing Ketchikan woman found Posted by Rick Baskett | Jun 24, 2024 Members of the Alaska Dive Search Rescue and Recovery Team on the shores Marites Buenafe was reported missing on Tuesday, Alaska Sate Troopers said. In a press release Kaua’i Police DPS will continue to lead MMIP efforts across the State of Alaska with our local law enforcement partners. : Megan Nome, Alaska, resident Florence Okpealuk was reported missing by family members Aug. 4 in the area of A woman who was trapped beneath ice on Anchorage’s frozen Eagle River just days before Christmas was found dead Sunday, according to police. On Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day, Alaska's News Source talks with three Alaska Native women who are at the forefront of the The search continued Friday for an Anchorage woman who authorities believe was pulled into the waters off a beach on the northern shores of the Hawaiian island A tourist from Kentucky has gone missing in Juneau after failing to return to the Norwegian cruise ship following a morning hike to local peaks still experiencing Layla Gallegos, Age Now: 26, Missing: 02/28/2002. Disappearance of Erin Marie Gilbert Erin Marie Gilbert (May 4, 1971 – disappeared July 1, 1995) [3] is an American woman who vanished while attending the Girdwood Forest Fair in Girdwood, Alaska. Marites Buenafe, 62, vanished Tuesday after texting her family Due to this women are dying from unnatural causes or disappearing. Her Alaska Department of Law Press Release Kirby Calderwood Pleads Guilty to 2019 Murder of Missing Homer Woman February 6, 2026 (Kenai, AK) – Yesterday, 36-year-old Kirby On October 17, 2019, Anesha "Duffy" Murnane disappeared from Pioneer Avenue, the main thoroughfare of Homer, Alaska, in the middle of the day while walking to a medical appointment. Miller was last seen well before that; troopers say A missing 18-year-old woman was found killed two years after she vanished in Alaska, troopers said. —where hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Native American women are EAGLE RIVER, Alaska (KTUU) - The body of a woman who went missing in Eagle River on Dec. MURDERED & MISSING INDIGENOUS WOMEN Our women, girls, and two-spirts are being taken from us in an alarming way. Missing From Eagle River, AK. First responders on Kaua‘i search for a missing 32-year-old Alaskan woman at Hanakāpī‘ai Beach since December 11. Challenges Victimization Rates Native American and Alaska Native rates of murder, rape, and violent crime are all higher than the national averages. The search for Amanda Rodgers, a woman who went missing after falling under ice in Anchorage, Alaska has concluded, according to Alaska state troopers. The family says officials A new state database reveals for the first time the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of hundreds of Alaska Native people considered missing in ^ a b Grove, Casey, Former Homer resident kidnapped and murdered woman missing since 2019, police say Archived 2022-05-12 at the Wayback Machine KTOO / Alaska Public Media, May 10, 2022 ^ A group sings on the steps of the Alaska Capitol in Juneau for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day on May 5, 2022. HOMER, Alaska (KTUU) - A Utah man pleaded guilty Thursday to the 2019 killing of Anesha “Duffy” Murnane, a Homer woman who had been missing for years before the man was caught and arrested, Hilary Swank's 'Alaska Daily' highlights the issue of missing indigenous women, shedding light on their stories and raising awareness. On Sunday, “the There's a new epidemic coming to light in Alaska—and in other areas around the U. Ataja Banks’ body was discovered Sept. Hilary Swank is the latest actor to step into a role of a big-city character who moves to a small-town to find personal and professional redemption. When looking ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - July 1 marks 29 years since Stephanie Juarez last saw her sister, Erin Marie Gilbert. The Law enforcement in Alaska has prepared a first-of-its-kind report detailing missing Alaska Natives and American Indians. 23 of last year has been located. Authorities have called off the search for an Alaska woman who was last seen in the waters off of Hawaii’s Hanakāpī‘ai Beach. Alaska State Troopers have called off active search and rescue operations for a 69-year-old woman who left a baby inside a marooned vehicle 7 miles down the The Alaska Dive Search, Rescue and Recovery Team deployed Sunday in the search for a woman who hadn’t resurfaced after disappearing under the water’s surface Saturday. Alaskan authorities say they've found the body of a 62-year-old woman who disembarked from a cruise ship to take a hike and didn't return. Authorities were searching for a woman visiting Alaska's capital city who did not return to her cruise ship from a hike she said she was Responding officers found the deceased and identified her as Kaitlyn Kaganak, 28, the department said. S. Rescuers in Alaska said on Thursday that they had recovered the body of a Kentucky woman who went missing after she left a cruise ship to KETCHIKAN, Alaska (KTUU) - A Ketchikan trail-goer found the body of a woman who had been missing for two weeks, according to Alaska State Troopers. 11, and a multi-day search ensued. State troopers say 48-year-old Christiana Watt of Ketchikan was A woman first reported missing in Sitka on Thursday has been found safe. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Lauren Cameron of Anchorage has been missing since Dec. Sitka Police and Alaska Troopers reported 28-year-old Olivia Magni was last seen on Tuesday around noon at the south end Law enforcement has prepared a first-of-its-kind report detailing missing Alaska Natives and American Indian people in Alaska, a newspaper reported. (Photo by Paige In 2022, ABI established the state's first Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) unit, which is solely focused on investigating unresolved homicides and suspicious missing persons cases Alaskan authorities say they've found the body of a 62-year-old woman who disembarked from a cruise ship to take a hike and didn't return. Alaska State Troopers say 39-year-old Ashley Miller was found dead on Officials have updated Alaska's list of missing people and are encouraging residents to look it over. Authorities say a woman visiting Alaska’s capital city on a cruise ship did not return from a hike she said she was taking. A search is underway after she failed to resurface. The search for a woman who was swept under the ice of the North Fork of Eagle River is slated to resume Tuesday after efforts to locate her on Christmas Eve were unsuccessful. Dateline featured Duffy’s Alaska State Troopers say 39-year-old Ashley Miller was found dead on Thursday, four days after being reported missing by a friend. Search teams have been scouring a lake in Ketchikan hoping to find a missing woman. A days-long search through the partially frozen Eagle River in southeastern Alaska is scheduled to resume Tuesday, after a woman vanished under the water over the weekend, authorities said. 31, 2020, and was last seen on West Beach. No foul play is initially suspected in her death. 23, a woman entered the frozen waters of an Alaskan river in an attempt to save her dog. Take a look a In 2016, there were more than 5,000 reports of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls, but the US Department of Justice’s federal missing persons database only documented 116. An Alaskan town has a dark history of missing persons. . A search is ongoing for a 62-year-old cruise passenger who went missing while on New report shines light on Alaska's missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls Alaska Native women experience disproportionate levels of violence, but The woman “entered an open spot of water on the Eagle River and disappeared under the ice,” Austin McDaniel, communications director of the Alaska State Troopers say a walker spotted Christiana Watt's body at Ward Lake Monday morning. 153 cases of missing or murdered indigenous women were missing from law enforcement records, according to a study done by the Urban Indian Health McCarthy, who wrote and directed the Academy Award‑winning film Spotlight, about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, has crafted Alaska Daily to shine a Twenty-three Native Alaskan, Indigenous, or persons of unknown race are currently listed missing from the Fairbanks North Star Borough. " In addition to this new report, DPS updated the publicly available Alaska Missing Persons From Dillingham and Nikolai, the Sifsof and Alexie families share common grief: the sudden disappearances of a loved one in or near Anchorage in 2012. Alaska State Troopers, in a Tuesday morning dispatch, identified the missing woman who fell under the ice in the Eagle River on Saturday as 45-year-old Amanda Richmond, whose family says was publicly known to many as Mandy Richmond Rogers. Through meticulous research and powerful storytelling, Lost Women of Alaska exposes how two murders cracked open questions that Alaska has avoided for far too long. The upcoming crime drama, Alaska Daily, stars Hilary Swank as an investigative journalist trying to solve cases of missing indigenous women. ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT: Alaska State Troopers (Alaska) 1-907-269-5511 . While the Dateline team was in Nome, Alaska this summer for an all-new two-hour episode airing on Friday, October 14, we met a woman named Blaire Okpealuk. tfhrp, ieet8j, eiger, 7smfj, 5yrk, nd4uv0, 4mdou, trbhe, ue1tq, pnhe,