On July 3, 2017, White/Caucasian, 76-year-old Nadya Vehrs, a female from Anchorage, was at the center of a quiet neighborhood emergency that began with a welfare check at a home in the 11000 block of Hillside Drive. Officers first looked in on the residence the evening before and found no one home. When they returned the next day and widened their search beyond the house, they discovered two bodies on the property, ending the uncertainty with a grim clarity.
By July 5, detectives had concluded they were investigating a murder-suicide. On July 6, police publicly identified the suspected shooter as 75-year-old Larry Vehrs, Nadya Vehrs' husband, and said evidence indicated he fatally shot 76-year-old Nadya Vehrs before taking his own life. The finding explained the absence of struggle at the residence and the lack of any continuing threat in the neighborhood. Authorities said next-of-kin notifications were complete once the names were released.
Accounts compiled from local reporting indicate the two were found outside, in a wooded area behind the home's garage, consistent with the extended search officers conducted after not locating anyone inside. Community memorial pages recorded that 76-year-old Nadya Vehrs was lost to gun violence on July 3, 2017, and listed her alongside her spouse, 75-year-old Larry Vehrs, who also died at the scene that day. Together, these public records and summaries align with the police determination that the case was a murder-suicide.
There were no arrests. Investigators named 75-year-old Larry Vehrs as the sole suspect and closed the case as a murder-suicide, leaving no outstanding suspects and no pending charges connected to the death of 76-year-old, female Nadya Vehrs of Anchorage.
