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We're getting closer and closer to figuring out what happened to Mindy Schloss, a nurse missing since the beginning of this month.
Last week, CBS 11 News showed you a security photo taken at a bank. Police and FBI agents say the man in that video is Joshua Alan Wade. According to them, the 27-year-old man was using Schloss' ATM card the same weekend she vanished.
The man police are looking for, Wade, has a notorious past. Seven years ago, he was charged with the brutal murder and sexual assault of a Native woman. Wade was originally charged with murder. He went to trial, but was acquitted of murder. He instead faced jail time for tampering with evidence in the case of Della Brown, a 33-year-old Native woman. She was found mutilated in Midtown back in 2000.
Anchorage police say Wade is the same man who used Schloss' ATM card. His name was connected to the brutal murder of Brown. Her beaten body was found in an abandoned shed on Spenard Road in 2000. Before Wade was arrested, witnesses say he bragged to gang members-- telling them he killed the Native woman and had sex with her corpse.
Wade was arrested weeks later, but his story changed. He said he was just telling lies to impress friends. During his trial in April 2003, he faced eight charges, including murder and sexual assault. His defense team told jurors there was, "not one shred of physical evidence." With that, he was only found guilty for tampering with evidence, serving just over four years in jail.
At his sentencing, he had this to say about the case:
- "The only person I'm sorry to is her mother and her family. But other than that, I'm not sorry for all of the hell you guys had to go through, lying and trying to get a conviction on me."