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Malai Larsen

Case from Palmer, AK dated Jun 01, 1981

Victim Details

Malai Larsen

Female

Alaskan Native

Palmer

AK

1981-06-01

25

Malai

Larsen

Yes

07/17/2026

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Alaskan Native, Malai Larsen, age 25, Female, lived in Palmer, Alaska, in the early 1980s, part of a community shadowed by a predator who hunted women along the Knik River corridor. Public memorial and genealogy records remember her as born in 1955 and gone by the summer of 1981; one memorial page marks her as “lost to gun violence” on June 1, 1981, in Palmer, while family-history listings and film databases align on her being 25 years old that year.

Her absence did not immediately b ...
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