Solved cold cases in Alaska
1 documented case.
SolvedGenetic genealogy
Sophie Sergie
Sophie Sergie, a 20-year-old former University of Alaska Fairbanks student, was sexually assaulted and murdered in a women's bathroom in Bartlett Hall on the UAF campus in April 1993. The case went cold for roughly 25 years until investigative genetic genealogy traced crime-scene DNA to Steven Downs, a former dorm resident then living in Maine, who was convicted of murder and sexual assault in 2022.