Serial killers, missing women, and the wilderness that hides everything
Alaska has the highest rate of serial killings per capita in the nation—15.65 per million inhabitants. The wilderness that surrounds Anchorage offers something that killers need: a place to make people disappear. The vastness, sparse law enforcement, transient population, and months of darkness create conditions where predators thrive and victims vanish. The frontier has always been a place where law was thin and consequences could be outrun. Alaska perfected this dynamic.
Loading...