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Unidentified White Female

"Eklutna Annie"




  • Discovered on July 21, 1980 in Anchorage, Anchorage County, Alaska.
  • Death had occurred about a year before discovery.
  • Manner of death is homicide. The victim had been stabbed in the back.


Vital Statistics



  • Estimated age: Late teens - early 20's
  • Approximate Height and Weight: 4'11" - 5'3"
  • Distinguishing Characteristics: Long, reddish-brown hair.
  • Clothing: Knee-high, reddish-brown, high-heeled vinyl boots, jeans, a sleeveless knit top and a brown leather jacket. She also wore several peices of of jewelry. None of it is valuable or particularly distinctive, but a silver cuff bracelet with polished stones may be handmade.
  • DNA: Available
Case History
The victim was found on July 21, 1980 buried along a power line outside Eklutna.
In 1984, a local baker named Robert Hansen listed her among the 17 women he admitted killing in and around Anchorage. He said she was his first victim, but didn't know her name. Hansen said that she was a topless dancer or a prostitute and that he was going to take her to his home. On the way, the woman tried to escape. Hansen then killed her.
The victim had no identification and could not be matched to a missing persons report. Hansen said the woman might have said she or her family lived in Kodiak. Troopers believe she may have come to Alaska from Washington or California.

 
Photos of jewelry on Doe Network page.

Other mention of victim:

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/weird/robert_hansen/2.html



"Alaska State Trooper sergeant Lyle Haugsven was assigned to determine whether or not Sherry Morrow's murder was an isolated incident. Working with the Anchorage Police Department, the two agencies began sharing files and comparing notes. According to Bernard DuClos in Fair Game, the first indication of a possible link appeared to be with two unsolved cases from 1980. In the first case, construction workers digging near
 
Web posted Friday, February 21, 2003

Troopers try to identify victim of serial killer


ANCHORAGE (AP) -- Alaska State Troopers are making another try at identifying a murdered woman nicknamed ''Eklutna Annie,'' more than 20 years after her decomposed body was found buried along a power line outside Eklutna.

The woman, believed to be a white brunette in her 20s, was found on July 21, 1980, by electric workers repairing the line. She had no identification and could not be matched to a missing persons report. Troopers believe she may have come to Alaska from Washington or California.

Forensic experts said the woman appeared to have been dead about a year.

In 1984, a local baker named Robert Hansen listed her among the 17 women he admitted killing in and around Anchorage. He said she was his first victim, but didn't know her name. She was a topless dancer or a prostitute, he told troopers in his confession. He picked her up in town, told her he lived in Muldoon and was taking her to his home.

But when he continued past Muldoon Road out of town, the woman said no and tried to get out of his pickup, so he pulled a gun on her.

''I just pointed the gun and I tell her, I says, 'Now look, if you do exactly what I tell you and don't give me any problem whatsoever, there's going to be no -- you won't get hurt any way, shape or form,''' Hansen told troopers.

But the truck got stuck in mud. The woman helped Hansen maneuver onto tractable ground, but when he told her to get out for a minute, she ran, he said. He caught her by the hair and claims she pulled a knife from her purse. He overpowered her, he said, and used the knife to stab her in the back.

Hansen said the woman might have said she or her family lived in Kodiak.

Troopers were not convinced the woman was Hansen's first victim, but her death occurred early enough in his murder career that he left her jewelry on her body when he buried her.

Troopers are hoping someone will recognize her jewelry. None of it is valuable or particularly distinctive, but a silver cuff bracelet with polished stones may be handmade.

Once Hansen became a more experienced killer, he began keeping his victims' jewelry. A bag of such jewelry was found in his home after investigators came to suspect him in the disappearances of dancers and prostitutes from pipeline-era Anchorage.

Hansen, now in his 60s, is in Spring Creek prison in Seward, serving 461 years plus life.

When found, Annie was wearing knee-high, reddish-brown, high-heeled boots, jeans, a sleeveless knit top and a brown leather jacket.

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/022103/ala_022103ala0160001.shtml


Possible Match?


Case File 1318DFOK

Teresa Cupps
Missing since 1975 from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Classification: Missing

Vital Statistics

* Date Of Birth: April 8, 1957
* Age at Time of Disappearance: 18 years old
* Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'3"; 120 lbs.
* Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown eyes; brown hair.
* Marks, Scars, Tattoos: Tattoo on the right ankle. She has "track marks" from heroine use. She may have a scar on her abdomen area and a tattoo on her lower right leg.
* Dentals: Not available
* Alias(s): Kimbi R. Boyd, Virginia Collins, Kimvi Boyd, Kimbi Cupps
* Other: She may use Date of Birth: April 8, 1956. She has used the SSN 441-62-7715. Fingerprints are available.

Circumstances of Disappearance
Cupps was admitted to the juvenile shelter in Tecumseh, at the time it was called Girlstown. Everything found from police records, hospital records, social security, ends in 1975. Convicted of larceny in 1975, Teresa Cupps went into the Department of Corrections system, under a different name -- Kimbi Boyd. But she stopped reporting to her probation officer in 1977. That's the last found solid documentation put on paper. Cupps was into prostitution around 1975 and was a heroine user.
After 13 years of no contact and no criminal activity, DOC dropped the charges against Teresa Cupps. There are no warrants for her arrest. Her sister is searching for her and made a missing persons report in 2004.

Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:

Tecumseh Police Department
Lt. J.R. Kidney
405-598-3755

Agency Case Number: 04-0074

NCIC Number: M-253843451
Please refer to these numbers when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

Source Information:
KFOR-TV
Tecumseh Police Department

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1318dfok.html

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/cupps_teresa.html
 
There is a thread for this UID

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4304781&highlight=Eklutna#post4304781

I'll ask the mod to merge the threads.


There's not too much out there in the MP sites.

Karen Dean Evan
evan_karen.jpg
311UFAK.jpg

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/e/evan_karen.html
She is from Alaska, and aside from her Native American ethnicity, she fits the physical description, but she probably had not been missing long enough to fit the estimated 1-year postmortem interval.

Angela Meeker
meeker_angela.jpg
311UFAK.jpg

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/meeker_angela.html
also fits the physical description, and is from Washington (as speculated by LE). However, DNA is available both for Angela, and Eklutna Annie, so CODIS should have identified the match, if there was one.
 
That's a horrible reconstruction. Any white female could look like that. It is so plane jane.
 
I wonder why they never at least looked dentals to see if they could match her up with Megan Emerick who went missing in 1973 from Seward, Alaska.

I know that the circumstances would seem to suggest that this was not her but that was taken from information from a known serial killer.

Megan Emerick shares several features that I believe may make her a good possibility.

- She was relatively close to where the UID was found (in terms of the size of Alaska)
- She is within the age range
-She looks to have brown hair to the middle of her back
-She is one inch over the height estimate
-She very strongly resembles the UID

Megan Emerick: http://www.dps.state.ak.us/ast/abi/docs/bulletins/Emerick.pdf
UID: http://www.dps.state.ak.us/ast/abi/docs/bulletins/EklutnaAnnie.pdf
 
Orange sock unsolved mysteries AK killer. Possible connection?
 
There is a thread for this UID

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4304781&highlight=Eklutna#post4304781

I'll ask the mod to merge the threads.


There's not too much out there in the MP sites.

Karen Dean Evan
evan_karen.jpg
311UFAK.jpg

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/e/evan_karen.html
She is from Alaska, and aside from her Native American ethnicity, she fits the physical description, but she probably had not been missing long enough to fit the estimated 1-year postmortem interval.

Angela Meeker
meeker_angela.jpg
311UFAK.jpg

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/meeker_angela.html
also fits the physical description, and is from Washington (as speculated by LE). However, DNA is available both for Angela, and Eklutna Annie, so CODIS should have identified the match, if there was one.

I would say that Karen Dean Evan is the best possible match. From what I've read, it sounds like the last time she called anyone was in May of 1980. I think that the possibility that this date is incorrect by a few weeks or even months is pretty strong. I think the other info is too close to not submit this as a possible match. I wish her family had provided more info to LE.
 
Claudette is right. The reconstruction is pretty primitive. It would wonderful to see an updated recon done on this case. Not sure how one goes about that, but if ever a recon needed a do-over, this is one! NIJ is paying the tab to do recons I heard? The center for exploited and missing children as well has access to a computer program? Florida seems to be doing a wonderful job with computer recons of their UID. Too bad these resources cannot be tapped...
 
Here's a new NamUs casefile for a girl from Seattle who was thought to have gone up to Anchorage and was involved in "vice related crime".

Theresa Kay Davis

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https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/14223/1

Her listed height is a little tall for Eklutna Annie though.

Also, her age at the time of disappearance is not listed, but she would probably be too old at the time of EA's death (about a year before the remains were found in 1980).
 
I agree with you on the height - TKD is 5" over the extremely small UID's mid point.

If TKD (I couldn't find a date of birth) is/would be 56 years old now, she would have been born in 1955/56. If Annie's date of death was one year before then she would have been approximately 23 years old at that point; which I would class as upper end of the age range, rather than an inconsistency, especially if the date of death was actually closer to two years (though that depends on the quality and reliability of the witness, the killer).

The circumstances match the account nicely though, in terms of location, history, and overall look. TKD's hair is described as black though and while the hair in the photo doesn't look that dark at all (and I guess it could have been dyed, although the UID doesn't mention that) that is a discrepancy from "reddish brown."
 
Carl,

I think you should call in TKD to both Seattle and AK.
 
Why is her age at LKA a mystery? Namus says it was 18.

Theresa Kay Davis has DNA available but it doesn't say whether she is in Codis or not.
 
Why is her age at LKA a mystery? Namus says it was 18.

Theresa Kay Davis has DNA available but it doesn't say whether she is in Codis or not.

Her age at LKA was blank when the NamUs profile first came online. Since then, they added her age.
 
I wonder why they never at least looked dentals to see if they could match her up with Megan Emerick who went missing in 1973 from Seward, Alaska.

I know that the circumstances would seem to suggest that this was not her but that was taken from information from a known serial killer.

Megan Emerick shares several features that I believe may make her a good possibility.

- She was relatively close to where the UID was found (in terms of the size of Alaska)
- She is within the age range
-She looks to have brown hair to the middle of her back
-She is one inch over the height estimate
-She very strongly resembles the UID

Megan Emerick: http://www.dps.state.ak.us/ast/abi/docs/bulletins/Emerick.pdf
UID: http://www.dps.state.ak.us/ast/abi/docs/bulletins/EklutnaAnnie.pdf

Did you ask if the UID could be Megan Emerick? I noticed a resemblance, too.

This is the NamUs page for Eklutna Annie https://identifyus.org/en/cases/10217

No rule outs are listed. I thought the reconstruction also looked like Andria Bailey.
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https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/5814/505
 

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