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Michelle Rothe

Case from Anchorage, AK dated Sep 06, 2003

Victim Details

Michelle Rothe

December 14, 2022

Female

White / Caucasian

Anchorage

AK

2003-09-06

2003-09-06

32

Michelle

Rothe

07/18/2026


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Caucasian/White female Michelle Rothe, age 32, was found on September 6, 2003, when the tide at Turnagain Arm near Anchorage's Oceanview neighborhood gave up partial remains. Investigators determined she had been killed weeks earlier, in the summer of 2003, and the water had carried what was left of her to shore. In the quiet that follows a discovery like this, the first facts felt stark and spare: a name, a place, a date; a 32-year-old woman, gender female, whose life had ended out of sight and ...
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