An electrician found the badly beaten and defiled body of 48-year-old Martha Hansen behind the Elks Club on 3rd Avenue in downtown Anchorage. She was naked except for a white sock on her left foot. When police detectives arrived at the scene, they were determined to do everything they could to find the animal who had perpetrated this horrible crime. They put in hours of dogged perseverance and executed a forensic technique few investigators thought was possible.

Sources:

Man Charged in Woman’s Death. 8-19-1996. The Daily Sitka Senitnel.

Man Sentenced in Murder Case. 9-22-1997. The Daily Sitka Sentinel.

D’Oro, Rachel. Bar Video Cameras Give Vital Clues in Homicide. 9-4-1996. The Daily Sitka Sentinel. Reprinted from the Anchorage Daily News.

Toomey, Sheila. Anchorage police get palm print off body, a ‘rare’ forensic feat. 10-22-1996. Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Reprinted from the Anchorage Daily News.

Ice Cold Rage. Fatal Frontier-Evil in Alaska. E03. 11-21-2021.

 

 

 

 

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