A South African man who confessed to killing an Alaska Native woman and was captured on cellphone video torturing and killing another was found guilty Thursday in both killings. The Anchorage jury deliberated less than two hours before returning the unanimous guilty verdicts for Brian Steven Smith, 52, in the deaths of Kathleen Henry and …
The soldier husband of an Alaska National Guard member found dead this week from a bullet wound to the head told investigators a different story than the one Anchorage detectives uncovered that led to his arrest for murder. Spc. Zarrius Hildabrand, 21, reported Saria Hildabrand missing Monday after, he said, she didn’t return from work …
Two women found dead near an Alaska highway after one of them called 911 were murdered, according to state police investigating the case. State troopers began investigating the case on May 24 after Sunday Powers, 30, was reported missing shortly after she made that 911 call, the Alaska Department of Public Safety said. Troopers began …
An Alaska couple was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly killing a 2-year-old boy who was placed into their care after his father murdered his mother in September. Arraigned on Thursday, Steven Melovidov, 31, is accused of fatally striking Joshua Rukovishnikoff on December 11 and injuring his genitals. Following an emergency call that day, Melovidov’s wife, …
An Alaska man was indicted last last month for the murder of a man who had been missing for five years — and whose body was found beneath the floorboards of the man now charged with his death, the Alaska Department of Public Safety says. Jay Osmond Gardner, 55, had long been a suspect in …
An Alaska-based dentist who was filmed performing oral surgery while riding on a hoverboard was found guilty on Friday of various criminal charges related to his profession. An Anchorage Superior Court Judge Michael Wolverton found Seth Lookhart, 34, guilty of 46 criminal counts, including Medicaid fraud, reckless endangerment, and “unlawful dental acts.” Wolverton wrote that …
A 5-year-old child abandoned at home in a remote Alaska village carried an 18-month-old through 31 below zero temperatures to a neighbor’s home earlier this month after the power went out, Alaska State Troopers said in a statement on Friday. State troopers had to charter an aircraft to fly to Venetie from Fairbanks, 155 miles …
An Alaska man was accused of fatally shooting his younger sister on Thanksgiving as her 1-year-old son sat in her lap. The Anchorage Daily News reported that Moses Crowe, 27, shot his sister, Amanda Owen, 23, in the head after getting into an argument with her about unfriending or blocking him on Facebook. Crowe’s grandmother …
An Alaska man was arrested on murder charges this week, days after an SD card was discovered which reportedly showed him beating and strangling a woman in a hotel room. The Anchorage Police Department said in a Nixle alert on Wednesday that a woman contacted them on September 30, after finding an SD card which …
Officials have released footage showing a father and son in Alaska illegally killing a mother bear and her two cubs, who were under video surveillance as part of a governmental study. Recorded by the Alaska Department of Public Safety, the April 2018 footage showed Andrew Renner, 41, and Owen Renner, then 17, skiing to the den before Owen …
Officials in Alaska said an Army soldier was seriously injured Saturday when a bear he shot at Carter Lake fell off a ridge and came tumbling down on him. The Department of Public Safety said in a daily dispatch that William McCormick, 28, was airlifted to an Anchorage hospital with life-threatening injuries after the bear and …
The 29-year-old son of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is facing charges including domestic violence assault after a reported altercation at his home. According to Us Weekly, Track Palin was arrested on Friday after authorities in Wasilla, Alaska, received a disturbance report. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Palin has was arrested last year on suspicion of …
