Alaska

2,350 murders reported in Alaska from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 82%. Explore the statistics →

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Cases

Robert Hansen
1971–1983 · Anchorage, Alaska
SerialPleaded guilty14 victims
Robert Hansen, an Anchorage baker and private pilot, abducted and killed women in Southcentral Alaska from the early 1970s until 1983, often flying them to remote areas.
Israel Keyes
2011–2012 · Anchorage, Alaska, and Essex, Vermont
SerialDied before trial3 victims
Israel Keyes, an Anchorage construction contractor and Army veteran, abducted 18-year-old barista Samantha Koenig from a coffee stand in Anchorage on February 1, 2012, killed her, and then demanded ransom.
Steven Downs
1993 · Fairbanks, Alaska
SingleConvicted1 victim
Sophie Sergie, a 20-year-old woman from the village of Pitkas Point, was sexually assaulted and murdered in April 1993 while visiting a friend in Bartlett Hall, a dormitory at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.