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Lisa Futrell

Case from Palmer, AK dated Sep 06, 1980

Victim Details

Lisa Futrell

Female

White / Caucasian

Palmer

AK

1980-09-06

41

Lisa

Futrell

Yes

07/13/2026

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White/Caucasian female Lisa Futrell, age 41, left work at an Anchorage nightclub on the night of September 6, 1980, and never made it home to Palmer. When the 41-year-old failed to return after her shift, her housemates reported her missing, and for years the case sat in a grim limbo with no answers. Online memorial records list her as having been lost to gun violence on that same date in Palmer, sketching only the outline of a life abruptly interrupted.

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