Do you know who murdered Martha Toms? On September 22, 2005, 35-year-old Martha Toms, Native American/Indigenous from Anchorage, was discovered beneath a picnic table in Lyons Park in the Mountain View neighborhood, badly beaten but still alive. First responders rushed the 35-year-old female to a local hospital, where she died a short time later. The Anchorage Police Department opened a homicide investigation and logged it as APD case 05-42965, appealing to the public for help as detectives worked to reconstruct her final hours in
the park.
In the months and years that followed, investigators did not announce any arrests. No suspect or suspects were publicly identified, and the case persisted as one of Anchorage's unsolved killings from that era. Community accounts continued to name 35-year-old Martha Toms among the city's unresolved homicides, and local coverage periodically revisited her death as part of broader conversations about violence against Native women and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples.
Today, authorities still describe the homicide of 35-year-old female Martha Toms as unsolved. Official notices continue to seek information from anyone who might have seen or heard something at Lyons Park that night, emphasizing that no arrests have been made and that detectives remain interested in leads that could identify the person responsible.
