Elizabeth Topkok Missing Person Case

Jul 09, 2026

Jul 10, 2026

Elizabeth

Topkok

16

16

65 inches

233 lbs

American Indian / Alaska Native

Female

In the early summer of 2026, a sense of unease settled over a family when 17-year-old Elizabeth Ileana Topkok vanished from Anchorage, Alaska. On May 2, 2026, the teenage girl, an American Indian/Alaska Native, was expected to board a flight to Utah. However, for reasons that remain unknown, Elizabeth never made it onto the plane. Since that evening, her family has not seen or heard from her, and her whereabouts are a mystery. At the time of her disappearance, she was described as being 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighing 233 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a black Carhartt jacket and jeans and has a pierced nose. The day after she was last in contact with her family, on May 3, 2026, Elizabeth was reported as a missing person to the Anchorage Police Department. The department, along with the Alaska State Troopers, opened an investigation into her disappearance. Her case details were later entered into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), a national database for missing persons. The circumstances surrounding her failure to board the flight to Utah remain a central and perplexing part of the investigation. The investigation into Elizabeth Topkok's disappearance is ongoing, with law enforcement seeking any information from the public that could lead to her whereabouts. Her case highlights the ongoing crisis of Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP), a significant issue in Alaska and across the United States, where Indigenous people, particularly women and girls, go missing or are victims of violence at a disproportionately high rate. The lack of answers in Elizabeth's case leaves her family and community in a state of painful uncertainty, hoping for any news that might bring her home. The central questions remain: why did she miss her flight, and what happened to her on that May evening in Anchorage?

May 02, 2026

Anchorage

Alaska

Anchorage Borough

No

198497

Anchorage Police Department

Anchorage

Alaska

Anchorage Borough

99501

716 West 4th Avenue, Alaska

9077868900

Local

Law Enforcement

https://www.muni.org/Departments/police/Pages/default.aspx

26-0012095

2026-05-03

Anchorage Police Department

Brown

Brown

Brown

07/12/2026