Alaska State Troopers

Justine Paul was indicted on flawed evidence. A defense witness wrote that police should have treated no fewer than 12 people as suspects of “higher interest.” A decade after the killing, no one has been convicted in Whitman’s death.

Justine Paul was accused of killing his girlfriend, Eunice Whitman. In Alaska’s slow-motion criminal justice system, he was kept behind bars even as the evidence against him fell apart.

Troopers said they received a report on Nov. 29 that 44-year-old Adrian Kailukiak had taken tribal police officer Gregory Karl hostage at gunpoint, but that another tribal police officer had been able to defuse the situation. More than two weeks later, Kailukiak's whereabouts remain unknown.

Troopers say several occupants of the home were able to escape, but that 78-year-old Xenia Black did not survive the blaze in the late evening hours of Nov. 27.

In early November, 47-year-old Pius Teeluk was sentenced in Bethel court to 20 years in prison with 6 years suspended after pleading guilty to one count of manslaughter for the death of his girlfriend, Marie Unok.

According to Alaska State Troopers, 16-year-old Kennedy Teganlakla had been attempting to hydroplane the snowmachine over open water – known as skipping – when the accident occurred.

Stephanie Agathluk, 49, has been charged with second-degree murder for the death of Michael Andrews Jr., 54, in Emmonak in April. Another man faces multiple felony charges for allegedly helping Agathluk to cover up the death.

Kasigluk resident Adrianna Tinker, 33, died after a boat she was in struck a submerged object in the Napakiak Slough on Sept. 16. The boat's operator survived uninjured, according to Alaska State Troopers.

No injuries have been reported after schools in Kasigluk and the community of Quinhagak locked down in separate gun calls last week. Suspects in both cases have been charged with second-degree terroristic threatening.

The analysis, published Aug. 1, means that the Alaska State Troopers and most other law enforcement agencies will keep their policing policies the same as they have in recent years.