On September 2, 2000, the body of a thirty-three-year-old Alaska Native woman named Della Brown was found in an abandoned shed in Spenard, a neighborhood in the middle of Anchorage. A twenty-year-old named Joshua Wade had shown her body to acquaintances and, witnesses said, bragged that he had killed her. He was charged with her murder. In April 2003 a jury acquitted him of murder and sexual assault and convicted him of a single lesser crime, tampering with evidence.
Within months of finishing his sentence for that crime, Wade kidnapped his next-door neighbor, a nurse practitioner named Mindy Schloss, drove her to the woods near Wasilla in her own car and shot her. In February 2010, facing a possible federal death sentence, he pleaded guilty to her killing and, as part of the same agreement, admitted that he had killed Della Brown after all. Four years later, bargaining to be moved out of Alaska's prisons, he told detectives and FBI agents about three more killings.
The record on Joshua Wade therefore comes in layers that need to be kept apart. He was convicted of one killing, Mindy Schloss's. He admitted Della Brown's killing in a signed plea agreement but was never convicted of it, because a jury had acquitted him and double jeopardy barred a second trial. The three killings he described in 2014 rest on his own account, which the authorities said at the time they were still checking. He was never charged with any of them. He died in an Indiana prison in June 2024.
Joshua Alan Wade grew up in Alaska. He was twenty at the time of Della Brown's death in 2000, twenty-seven when Mindy Schloss disappeared in August 2007, twenty-nine at his sentencing in February 2010, and forty-four when he died in June 2024, which places his birth in about 1980. His father, Greg Wade, known as "Bubba," and his sister, Amanda Wade, both spoke to the Anchorage Daily News around the time of his 2010 plea.
What is publicly known of his childhood comes mostly from his own lawyers at sentencing and from testimony summarized in later reporting. His attorney Gilbert Levy told the court in 2010 that Wade had been sexually abused as a child and had tried to kill himself at the age of ten by drowning himself in a bathtub. Levy said Wade had later been hospitalized for mental illness several times and had abused drugs. Court testimony described in Alaska Dispatch's 2014 coverage said he spent much of his youth in juvenile facilities. At his 2003 sentencing he was given an additional eighteen months for violating parole, which indicates an earlier conviction, though the sources consulted for this page do not say what it was.
Wade himself, at his 2010 sentencing, rejected the idea that he had been made into what he was. "I understand I wasn't born bad," he said. At some point, he said, he "decided to be bad."
Della Brown died during a period that frightened Anchorage's Native community. Indian Country Today reported in June 2003 that at least ten Native women had been killed on Anchorage streets since 1999, many in cases that remained unsolved. In 1999 and 2000 alone, five Native women and one Black woman were killed. The paper named, among others, Vera Hapoff, found June 8, 1999; Annie Mann, found August 8, 1999; Helen Kinegak, found January 11, 2000; and Genevieve Tetpon, found March 22, 2000. Alaska Dispatch later counted Della Brown's death as one of six unsolved killings of local women at that time, five of them Alaska Native.
Della Brown's case, as Indianz.com put it in 2010, highlighted the high rates of sexual assault against Alaska Native women. Wade's trial for Della Brown's death was, according to Indian Country Today in June 2003, the only one of the roughly ten Native women's homicide cases since 1999 to have gone to trial by then. A 2016 book by the journalist Monte Francis, Ice and Bone, deals with the killings of six women in Anchorage in 2000; its publisher's description says Wade implicated himself in three of those deaths. No court record or official statement found for this page supports that he was responsible for any of the others, and he was never charged with any of them.
Della Brown was thirty-three. Her mother was Daisy Piggott, and she had a son, Robert. Indian Country Today, writing about her in 2003, said she loved salmon fishing and had an intermittent drinking problem. She is buried in the Anchorage Municipal Cemetery.
Her body was found on September 2, 2000, in an abandoned shed in Spenard, among garbage. She had been beaten about the head. For several days before police were called, according to Indian Country Today, people walked through the shed and lit matches to look at her, and none of them called for help. Investigators said Wade was among those who showed her body to others and that he told acquaintances he was responsible. The theory police later described was that Wade found Brown passed out from drinking and killed her in a rage after robbing and raping her.
Wade was arrested and charged with her murder and with sexual assault and robbery. He had made statements implicating himself, but at trial he recanted them.
The trial lasted about three months, according to the publisher's description of Francis's book, and ended in April 2003. Wade was defended by Cindy Strout and Jim McComas. Their case was that Wade had found Brown's body, not killed her, and that his boasting was an effort to earn credibility on the street.
They had physical evidence on their side. Semen found in Brown did not belong to Wade. A bloody fingerprint at the scene was not his, and neither was a pubic hair found there. The Associated Press, reporting on his 2003 sentencing, summarized the state of the evidence simply: witnesses said Wade had bragged about killing her, but there was no physical evidence linking him to the scene. The defense pointed the jury to other possible suspects, including a serial rapist then active in the city and Brown's boyfriend, whom they described as volatile.
The jury acquitted Wade of murder, sexual assault and robbery. It convicted him of tampering with evidence. Some jurors said afterward that they were uncomfortable with the verdict but had not found the evidence enough to convict beyond a reasonable doubt. Wade thanked the jurors and said he was sorry he had not called the police when he found her. "Even though 12 people said I'm not guilty," he said, "everyone believes I am guilty."
The verdict was received with anger. Desa Jacobssen, a Yup'ik and Gwich'in activist, began a twenty-one-day hunger strike in protest on April 23, 2003. She blamed racism, incompetence or indifference for the police department's record on the killings of Native women and called them hate crimes. Others disagreed. Denise Morris, president and chief executive of the Alaska Native Justice Center, said she believed the police had thoroughly investigated the cases. The center offered a reward for information leading to arrests and convictions.
On September 4, 2003, Wade agreed to the maximum sentence for evidence tampering: five years, plus eighteen months for violating his parole, for six and a half years in all. At the hearing he faced what the Anchorage Daily News called an angry crowd. He again said he was sorry he had not called the police when he first found Della Brown's body. He also complained that other inmates were targeting him as an anti-Native racist.
Daisy Piggott told the court she felt the judicial system had failed her daughter, and that she was still in therapy over Della's death.
Accounts of when Wade was released differ. A 2007 Anchorage Daily News report summarized on Indianz.com gives December 2004; a 2010 report gives December 2006, after about three years served; the Anchorage Daily News in 2010 said he had been out of prison about six months before Mindy Schloss was killed. What all the sources agree on is that he was back in Anchorage, and free, by the summer of 2007.
Mindy Schloss was fifty-two. She was a psychiatric nurse practitioner who lived in the Sand Lake neighborhood of south Anchorage. She had worked as a nurse in rural Alaska communities, and at the time of her death she was working shifts as a public health nurse in Fairbanks. She had just signed a lease on office space so that she could open her own psychiatric nurse practitioner practice, and she was planning to remodel her kitchen. Her partner of many years was Robert Conway. Her sister-in-law, Mary Schloss, lived in New York.
A few weeks before she died, Wade moved into the house next door. Neighbors later described it to police as a rowdy problem house. His bedroom window faced her kitchen. Prosecutors later said that in the days before the killing Wade was broke, unhappy at work and unhappy with where he was living, and that he had bought a .45-caliber Glock pistol. On Friday, August 3, 2007, his employer sent him home for having a bad attitude. Mindy Schloss was last seen at her home at about seven that evening.
The account of that night comes from the plea documents and prosecutors' filings, as reported by the Anchorage Daily News. In the early hours of August 4, Wade went into Schloss's house, at first intending, prosecutors said, to burglarize it. He restrained her, went back to his own house for gloves, zip ties, tape and the gun, and returned. He bound and gagged her, and she gave him the PIN for her bank card. A witness told prosecutors she heard a woman calling for help that night.
He put her, bound and wearing only a bathrobe, into the back seat of her red Acura Integra and drove for about an hour to an undeveloped, wooded cul-de-sac in Wasilla, in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley north of Anchorage. There he shot her in the back of the head. Prosecutors said he later partly burned her body. He went back to her house, vacuumed, made her bed and swept away his footprints, and left her car several miles away. Over the next days he withdrew $1,000 from her account in two withdrawals of $500.
Pretrial filings described Wade as a sexual predator. The plea documents do not mention sexual assault, he was never charged with one, and the state prosecutor, John Novak, said in 2010 that the allegation had never been proven.
Schloss did not come to work. A friend called the Anchorage Police Department on August 7, according to Oxygen's account of the case; other early reporting says coworkers reported her missing two days after she was last seen. Officers found her house in a state that her friend said Schloss would never have left it in, and her car was gone from the garage. Retired Anchorage detective Pam Perrenoud, who worked the case, recalled that "the friend was very sure something had happened to her." Robert Conway had an alibi and was quickly cleared. He spent the following weeks searching for her in dumpsters, on beaches and along railways.
Investigators found that someone had used her bank card after she disappeared. The ATM camera showed a man, not Schloss, whose face could not be made out. Her car was found and sent for DNA testing. When police knocked at the house next door, no one answered, and two young people who lived there were, in Perrenoud's words, "evasive about who lived inside the house." Another neighbor, Kathy Easley, told police that a man named Josh had approached her and told her he had a warrant out for his arrest for breaking into a drug dealer's home. Police identified him as Joshua Wade. A search of his house turned up a coat like the one worn by the man in the ATM footage, with a receipt in the pocket bearing Schloss's bank account number. Police said his DNA was on the steering wheel of her car.
FBI agent Jolene Goeden later said that anyone in law enforcement in Anchorage at the time already knew his name. By August 29, 2007, the Anchorage police and the FBI were publicly searching for Wade, and he was described as armed and dangerous. He was charged in federal court with bank fraud and identity theft for using her card.
On September 2, 2007, a tip led police to a woman who said Wade had come to her home looking for a ride. He then went into another acquaintance's home, where, according to Oxygen, he held a brother and sister hostage. A SWAT team surrounded the apartment in south Anchorage. After a standoff of several hours, Wade asked to speak to his lawyer and surrendered to Anchorage police and the FBI. The U.S. Marshals Service handed him over to the Alaska Department of Corrections that day. In an interview afterward he refused to talk; investigators told him, falsely, that they had already spoken to Schloss. The federal prosecutor Steve Skrocki later said that Wade "came within half an inch" of telling them that was impossible because she was dead.
He was arraigned on the bank fraud charge in U.S. District Court in Anchorage on September 4. On September 11, Magistrate Judge Matthew Jamin found that the case could go forward and ruled that Wade was a flight risk who would stay in jail.
On September 13, 2007, a municipal worker surveying in the woods off West Murray Road, about five miles from downtown Wasilla, found Mindy Schloss's body. Dental records confirmed her identity the next day. She had been shot in the head. Wade's phone held a photograph of a gun like the one used to kill her. Mary Schloss told the Anchorage Daily News that the discovery was a relief and that she hoped the case would go to trial with good evidence. In May 2008 the Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium set up a memorial fund in her name to honor her nursing work in rural Alaska.
Federal prosecutors charged Wade with carjacking resulting in death, along with the bank fraud and identity theft counts, and the state charged him with murder. Alaska has no death penalty, but because Schloss died during a carjacking, a federal crime, Wade could be sentenced to death in federal court. Federal prosecutors sought the death penalty. Had the case gone to trial, it would have been Alaska's first capital case since before statehood. The evidence in public filings included a pubic hair of Wade's found in Schloss's house, his DNA on her steering wheel, and a witness who said he had made an obscene remark about her before she disappeared. In their filings prosecutors described the killing as cruel and depraved and wrote: "The fact that he chose to kill again, and kill quickly, demonstrates his indifference to human life, his inability to be rehabilitated, and his omnipresent danger to society."
In February 2010, a filing announced that Wade would change his plea. His father told the Anchorage Daily News: "I'm sure the reason he decided to take this deal is to save his life." He added, "I don't want him free if he's incapable of living among us." His sister, Amanda, said she was shocked, "because it means he did it."
The agreement, among the United States, the State of Alaska and Wade, was carried out in two courtrooms on Wednesday, February 17, 2010. In the morning, in Alaska Superior Court, Wade was arraigned, pleaded guilty to Schloss's murder and was sentenced, all within a couple of hours. Judge Phillip Volland imposed ninety-nine years, with a restriction requiring him to serve at least sixty-six before he could be considered for state parole. In U.S. District Court, Wade pleaded guilty to carjacking resulting in Schloss's death, and Chief Judge Ralph Beistline sentenced him to life in prison without parole, to begin if he were ever released from state custody. In the agreement Wade also admitted that he had killed Della Brown, by striking her on the head with a rock. That was the theory the state had put to the jury in 2003 and failed to prove.
The deal took the death penalty off the table. U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler said Wade's wish to serve his time in an Alaska prison may have shaped its unusual structure. In a statement she said that "the public will be protected from Mr. Wade forever." He was represented by Adam Bartlett and Gilbert Levy.
In state court Wade looked at the families and said, "I deserve much worse. I'm sorry." He said he "chose the path of destruction and failure" and did not expect forgiveness. He declined to say the women's names, telling the court he did not feel he had the right to.
Della Brown's family was there. Daisy Piggott did not speak, but she wore a white T-shirt with her daughter's photograph on it. Della's son, Robert, said afterward: "I'm glad it's over. I'm glad it's done." Mary Schloss said the family was pleased with the sentence, most of all because Wade had admitted killing Della Brown. "It wasn't one," she said. "It was two."
In federal court Wade apologized again, then argued with the judge. Beistline told him, "What an evil thing you've done," asked what kind of person could take pleasure in the random destruction of another life, and called him heartless, selfish and a coward who preyed on defenseless women. "Don't push it, man," Wade said. "I'm going to push it," the judge answered. Beistline said the outburst was very revealing, that anger like it may have been among the last things Mindy Schloss experienced, and that it showed how dangerous Wade would be if he were ever freed.
Wade then asked, "What about the men?" and said, "I'm not a predator." Loeffler said she did not know what he meant, possibly bravado, and knew of no other victims. Detective Perrenoud said the police would look into anything they could. Greg Wade said he had believed his son's remorse was real until the outburst, which showed "his true face."
Wade served the first part of his sentence at Spring Creek Correctional Center, Alaska's maximum security prison in Seward. Less than a week after his plea, he later wrote, he was placed in solitary confinement, and he stayed there. His appellate attorney, Suzanne Lee Elliot, said he was locked down twenty-three hours a day with no contact with other prisoners and no programs.
In May 2011 he filed a handwritten petition for post-conviction relief in state court, trying to withdraw his guilty pleas and recant his confessions to both women's killings. If the court had granted it, the Schloss case could have gone back to trial. He argued that he had pleaded guilty only because prosecutors had promised, verbally, that he would be housed outside Alaska. He conceded that he could not pick his destination and that the Department of Corrections had refused to put any placement promise in writing. His lawyers, he wrote, had told him: "No guarantees, but (prosecutors) said you'd never be housed around Alaskans." He wrote that he wanted to be "just another face on the yard," away from his reputation and closer to family in the Lower 48, that he would never have pleaded guilty if Alaska placement had been even slightly possible, and that death would have been preferable to life in an Alaska prison. In an affidavit filed in August 2012 he described his conditions at Spring Creek. Elliot said in an affidavit of her own that although no guarantees had been made, she had believed the department intended to send him out of state.
Wade's prison record also included an allegation that was never tested in court. A fellow inmate, a small man with fetal alcohol syndrome, sued the state, saying Wade and others had sexually assaulted him. According to the suit, the abuse began while both were held in Arizona, where Alaska sent some of its prisoners; Arizona ordered them kept apart; and in May 2009 both were placed in the same unit at the Anchorage Correctional Complex, where Wade was said to have assaulted and threatened him again. Wade was removed as a defendant early in the case, and the Department of Corrections settled with the inmate for at least $200,000. Wade was never charged.
Early in 2014, while the post-conviction case was still pending, Wade offered a new bargain. He would drop the petition and tell investigators about three more killings, and in return he would be moved to a federal prison outside Alaska. Assistant Attorney General John Novak said Wade had told him the petition would go away if he were transferred. Novak saw value in that. Juries are unpredictable, he said, pointing to the Della Brown verdict, and the deal made sure the Schloss conviction would stand. "In my evaluation, that's an important benefit to the people, to make sure that conviction stays in effect," he said. He did not care where Wade served his sentence as long as he served it. "How many life sentences can somebody get?" he asked, adding that Wade would "take his last breath in a cage."
The Alaska Department of Corrections transferred Wade out of state on February 28, 2014. He went first to the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. On June 10 the post-conviction case was dismissed with his agreement. On June 20, 2014, the Alaska Department of Law, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Alaska, the Anchorage Police Department and the FBI announced at a joint news conference that they were investigating his claims.
According to the FBI's release that day, Wade said he had killed a man in Anchorage in 1994, a man in Anchorage in 1999, and an unidentified man on the same night in 2000 that he killed Della Brown. Investigators believed the first two referred to the unsolved deaths of John Michael Martin and Henry Ongtowasruk. The families of both men had been notified. The authorities said they were working to determine whether his admissions were truthful and accurate. Anchorage Police Chief Mark Mew said every claim would be investigated, though police were not equally confident in all of them. Detective Sergeant Slav Markiewicz said the department kept evidence in every homicide case indefinitely and that newer methods such as DNA analysis might now be used on evidence that could not be tested in 1994 or 2000. Prosecutors said they had not decided whether to bring charges.
Over the previous winter Wade had also called the Anchorage station KTVA several times from prison. The station held the interviews until police announced their news conference. In them he said he had killed someone when he was fourteen and, five years later, had strangled someone during a robbery that went wrong. Asked whether he was a serial killer, he said, "Absolutely not," and told people who believed it to "quit reading books." He said one of the killings "didn't really bother" him.
Loeffler declined to discuss his motives in the killings of the men but described them as situational rather than predatory. She said keeping Wade in prison for life was an easy choice if it resolved three unsolved murders. "He doesn't get out of jail, I don't really care what his motivation is," she said. "I just care that he never gets out." Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Skrocki wrote that Wade's unhappiness with his Alaska housing was not a factor; the choice, as he described it, was between moving Wade and "keeping Wade in Alaska at the risk of not solving these murders."
John Michael Martin was thirty-eight. He had schizophrenia and had been out of work for years, but he was not homeless. He was a regular at a Village Inn restaurant in Anchorage. In 1994, shortly after leaving the restaurant, he was shot once in the back of the head near a bike trail along Northern Lights Boulevard. Police had no leads. If Wade's claim is true, he was fourteen. Martin's family, in Washington state, was reported to be encouraged by the news in 2014.
Henry Ongtowasruk was born in Wales, Alaska, at the western tip of the Seward Peninsula. His mother, Arlene Soxie, who lives in Nome, described him to the station KNOM as "a happy person" who was "very bright." As a boy he spent most of his time outdoors, camping in the spring with his younger brother and their friends, hunting and learning to survive on the land. His family's obituary remembered him as a lover of the outdoors and a skilled solver of puzzles. As a young man he moved to Anchorage. He was mentally ill, had a case manager, and the state paid his weekly rent at the Alaska Budget Motel in Fairview, where the manager liked him and let him come in for coffee whenever he wanted.
In 1999, at thirty, he was found dead in his room there. The medical examiner estimated he had been dead for about two days. KNOM reported that he had been strangled. His killer was never found. Arlene Soxie visited the room, which the manager had left as it was.
She heard in February 2014 that Wade had confessed to a detective that he had killed her son. At first she felt hope. When she learned that he had traded the confession for a transfer, she said, "It angered me." She had been told there would be no trial, because Wade was already serving life. "I was wishing that there would have been a trial for the murder of my son," she said. "My son can't speak for himself." Even with a confession, she said, "it doesn't make me feel better."
The third man has never been identified publicly. Wade's account, as reported by the Associated Press and Alaska Dispatch, was that on the night he killed Della Brown he knocked a man unconscious, put him in the trunk of a car and went for drinks; when he came back and heard movement in the trunk, he beat the man again, then drove to the Valley and shot him twice in the head with a shotgun. No body, name, date or place has been released to match it.
The Alaska Dispatch reported in July 2014 that the federal inmate locator then listed Wade at a medium-security federal prison in Atlanta, while other reports place him at Terre Haute. At some point he was moved into the Indiana state prison system. When and why has never been publicly explained; both the Associated Press and Alaska Public Media said in 2024 that it was unclear.
On June 14, 2024, Wade was found unresponsive in his cell at Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. "Despite life-saving measures being performed, he was pronounced dead," said Brandi Pahl, a spokesperson for the Indiana Department of Correction. The Alaska Department of Corrections, announcing his death on June 18, gave the time as 2:45 p.m. and said no foul play was expected. The Indiana State Medical Examiner was to determine the cause, and an autopsy was planned. He was forty-four.
Wade's death in June 2024 was confirmed in this run by the Alaska Department of Corrections release of June 18, 2024, and by Associated Press, Alaska Public Media and KTUU reports of June 21, 2024. As of those reports the cause of death had not been made public.
His conviction for the murder of Mindy Schloss, by guilty plea in state and federal court, was final; his own challenge to it was dismissed in June 2014. His conviction for evidence tampering in the Della Brown case stands. His acquittal of her murder also stands in law; his 2010 admission did not change it, and double jeopardy meant he could not be tried for her death again. No source found for this page reports that he was ever charged in the deaths of John Michael Martin, Henry Ongtowasruk or the unidentified man, or that the authorities ever announced whether they had confirmed his accounts.
Proven in court: Wade kidnapped and killed Mindy Schloss in August 2007, by his guilty pleas in state court (murder) and federal court (carjacking resulting in death). He tampered with evidence in the Della Brown case, by the 2003 jury verdict.
Acquitted: the murder, sexual assault and robbery of Della Brown, by the same jury in April 2003.
Confessed but never convicted: the killing of Della Brown, which Wade admitted in his February 2010 plea agreement, describing a blow to the head with a rock. He had earlier made statements to acquaintances and police, recanted them at trial, and was acquitted. The physical evidence at trial, including semen, a bloody fingerprint and a hair, did not match him. His 2010 admission did not explain that evidence, and the sources consulted do not say whether it was ever further tested.
Confessed only, never charged and not publicly confirmed: the deaths of John Michael Martin (1994) and Henry Ongtowasruk (1999), whom investigators believed he was describing, and the unidentified man in 2000. He made these claims while bargaining for a transfer, and investigators said in 2014 that they were not equally confident in all of them. One account even lists Ongtowasruk's death as 1994, a date that conflicts with every other source.
Alleged and never charged: the sexual assault of Della Brown (acquitted) and of Mindy Schloss (described in pretrial filings, never charged, and called unproven by the prosecutor); the sexual assault of a fellow inmate (a civil claim from which he was dismissed early).
Claimed in a book description only: that Wade implicated himself in three of the six killings of women in Anchorage in 2000. No court record or official statement found supports any link to the others.
Not found: the brief for this page mentions an escape attempt in 2012. No source found in this run reports one. The documented events of 2011 and 2012 are his petition to withdraw his guilty pleas, filed in May 2011, and his August 2012 affidavit about his solitary confinement at Spring Creek. The documented move is his transfer out of Alaska on February 28, 2014, as part of the confession deal.
About 1980: Joshua Alan Wade born (calculated from ages in court and news reports).
1994: John Michael Martin, 38, shot near a bike trail along Northern Lights Boulevard, Anchorage. Unsolved; claimed by Wade in 2014.
1999: Henry Ongtowasruk, 30, found dead at the Alaska Budget Motel, Fairview, Anchorage. Unsolved; claimed by Wade in 2014.
September 2, 2000: Della Brown, 33, found dead in an abandoned shed in Spenard. Wade later charged with her murder.
2000: an unidentified man, killed the same night as Della Brown according to Wade's 2014 claim.
April 2003: jury acquits Wade of murder, sexual assault and robbery; convicts him of evidence tampering. April 23: Desa Jacobssen begins a hunger strike in protest.
September 4, 2003: Wade sentenced to six and a half years.
December 2004 or December 2006 (sources differ): released.
August 3, 2007: Mindy Schloss, 52, last seen at her Sand Lake home.
August 4, 2007: Wade kidnaps Schloss and shoots her near Wasilla.
August 29, 2007: Anchorage police and the FBI publicly seek Wade.
September 2, 2007: Wade surrenders after a standoff in south Anchorage.
September 4 and 11, 2007: arraigned on federal bank fraud; ordered held as a flight risk.
September 13, 2007: Schloss's body found off West Murray Road near Wasilla.
May 2008: Mindy Schloss Memorial Fund established.
February 17, 2010: Wade pleads guilty in state and federal court to Schloss's killing and admits killing Della Brown; sentenced to 99 years (state) and life without parole (federal).
May 2011: files for post-conviction relief, seeking to withdraw his pleas.
August 2012: affidavit describing solitary confinement at Spring Creek Correctional Center, Seward.
Winter 2013-2014: calls KTVA from prison describing other killings.
February 2014: confesses to a detective; February 28, transferred out of Alaska to federal prison.
June 10, 2014: post-conviction case dismissed with his agreement.
June 20, 2014: state and federal authorities announce they are investigating his claims to three more killings.
June 14, 2024: found unresponsive in his cell at Indiana State Prison, Michigan City, and pronounced dead, aged 44.