Jaracca Hundley, a 3-year-old white female, vanished from Kenai, Alaska, in late May 2014 alongside her mother, Rebecca Adams, her sister, Michelle, and her mother's boyfriend, Brandon Jividen. Their disappearance baffled family and investigators: vehicles were left behind, personal belongings sat undisturbed, and even a meal appeared abandoned mid-bite in their home.
For months, police, federal agents, and volunteers searched woods and fields near the family's duplex without success, clinging to fragments of possibility in the dense spruce and alder around Kenai.
The quiet broke on March 21–22, 2015, when a passerby noticed clothing off a trail less than a mile from the apartment and led authorities to human remains in a shallow depression. Investigators soon said they were confident the long-missing family had been found, and a handgun lay at the scene. What had felt like a disappearance hardened into a homicide investigation as the State Medical Examiner began confirming identities and police secured the area between Borgen Avenue and Alpine Drive. For the 3-year-old female victim from Kenai, the discovery ended the search but opened the final, difficult chapter of explanation and evidence.
By early June 2015, the investigation's conclusion was public: Brandon Jividen killed Rebecca Adams, 23, Michelle Hundley, 5–6, and Jaracca Hundley, 3, before taking his own life. The scene told a stark story—five spent shell casings, two handguns purchased by Jividen, holsters on his body, and the family dog lying dead near him—while the mother and her daughters were found together just 13 feet away. Detectives linked one weapon at the scene to a gun box in the family home by matching serial numbers. No motive could be firmly established, but the physical evidence anchored the determination of murder-suicide.
There were no arrests. With the identified perpetrator dead by suicide, the case closed without charges, leaving the community to mourn a 3-year-old female whose life in Kenai ended in violence and whose name joined memorial lists of those lost to gunfire. The remains were discovered nearly ten months after the family's disappearance, and authorities emphasized that despite the massive search, the terrain and concealment had kept the small, low-lying site hidden until chance finally revealed it. Jaracca Hundley, age 3, is recorded as lost to gun violence on March 22, 2015, in Kenai, Alaska.
