Investigators in Alaska used genetic genealogy to close the cold case killing of Jessica Baggen, who was raped and murdered after she celebrated her 17th birthday in 1996, authorities said Tuesday. A ...

Alaska Police said Steve Branch, 66, killed himself after police asked him for a DNA sample Alaska native Jessica Baggen had just turned 17, and she was celebrating. After visiting her sister at her ...

SITKA, Alaska (KLRT) – Alaska authorities announced the closure of a 1996 cold case after DNA evidence led investigators to an Arkansas man. Seventeen-year-old Jessica Baggen disappeared in Sitka, ...