Loujean Titus Jimmie, also appearing in some records as Loujean Jimmy or LueJean Jimmie, was a 29-year-old Dena Alaska Native female and young mother whose life ended in a violent unsolved homicide in Nenana, Alaska. She was last seen and reported missing on March 7, 1973. At first, the case began as a disappearance from a small Interior Alaska community, but within days investigators found evidence inside her cabin that suggested something far more serious had happened.
Eight days after Loujean was reported missing, police found a large pool of blood inside her cabin in Nenana. That discovery led investigators to believe she had met with foul play, even though her body had not yet been found. The scene inside the cabin indicated violence, and the search for Loujean shifted from a missing-person investigation into a homicide inquiry. For her family and community, the uncertainty deepened as days passed without answers.
On April 19, 1973, more than a month after Loujean disappeared, a trapper came across a horrifying discovery along the banks of the Nenana River, about a mile from town. The remains consisted of the head and arms of a woman, and they were later identified as belonging to Loujean. Her legs and torso were not recovered and remain missing in the public accounts of the case. Law enforcement believed she had been dismembered, and reports connected to the case state that officials believed a chainsaw may have been used. Investigators were quoted as describing the dismemberment as methodical and "very professional," language that suggested the person responsible acted with disturbing control and precision.
Loujean had roots in Alaska that stretched through her family and community. She was born to Charles Titus Sr. and Annie Thomas, and she later married Lindred Jimmie in January 1960. She had a son, Rondell, who grew up without the justice his mother deserved. Her parents and her son all passed away without seeing an arrest or conviction in Loujean's killing, leaving the case as an open wound for surviving relatives, including her siblings and extended family.
Investigators pursued the case, but public information does not identify any named suspect, arrest, charge, trial, or conviction in Loujean's murder. Older public references describe a reward being offered for information, and the case has continued to be remembered as a brutal unsolved killing from Alaska's past. Anyone with information about the murder of Loujean Titus Jimmie is asked to contact the Alaska Bureau of Investigation at 907-269-5611 or leave an anonymous tip by texting AKTIPS followed by the tip information to 847411.
