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She was 23 years old, a young mother, and Alaska Native; on May 30, 1978, the body of Edith Kakaruk—also known as Edith Kakaruk Purvis—was discovered near a car in Southeast Anchorage. The city was growing fast in the late 1970s, and that spring turned grim for her family when she did not make it home. When officers found the 23-year-old Female at the roadside, the scene offered little that would later translate into a named suspect, and the case slipped into the kind of silence that cold An ...Read More
She was 23 years old, a young mother, and Alaska Native; on May 30, 1978, the body of Edith Kakaruk—also known as Edith Kakaruk Purvis—was discovered near a car in Southeast Anchorage. The city was growing fast in the late 1970s, and that spring turned grim for her family when she did not make it home. When officers found the 23-year-old Female at the roadside, the scene offered little that would later translate into a named suspect, and the case slipped into the kind of silence that cold An ...Read More
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Edith Kakaruk
January 10, 2024
Female
Alaskan Native
Anchorage
AK
1978-05-30
1978-05-30
23
Edith Kakaruk
Edith
Kakaruk
11/05/2025
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11/27/2024
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11/27/2024
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09/28/2023
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