The woman you speak of is my mother. To say that Dennis’s passing affected her is an understatement she describes the period of shock after he died as a blur. She says she lost several weeks of memory. She can’t remember the funeral at all. She remembers my older brother crying day and night for Dennis. A doctor said that at 1 1/2 years old my brother was suffering from post traumatic grief.

She tried to remarry, to my dad Her heart was never in it. She always said Dennis was her soul mate.

My dad raised the two boys but he didn’t bond with them like a natural father would have.

My mother decided to stay single after my dad. Theres too much unresolved trauma there.

The sad part is that my mom is the only surviving spouse of any Alaska State Trooper to not get her spouse’s pension.

They said they hadn’t been married long enough. She’s fought the state for years on this. She’s sent bills to the state house and gets ignored.

I’ve heard her mention that some of the Troopers that were on the force at the time believe there was a cover up. She says some think he may have even been set up to be killed.

Three important witnesses in a high profile drug case to begin the next day, I believe, all dead in one swoop. Anchorage was a dark crime ridden place at that time. Just read “Johnny’s Girl” and you’ll get the idea.

Thank you for more context in this case and sharing the pain you and your family went through. We must all bear witness to the pain monsters and criminals cause. The violence and lack of just simple human decency has to change. May God bless you.