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Trial opens into long-unsolved case of Alaska Native woman
Thursday, January 13, 2022
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Update from the courthouse in Fairbanks: The trial is not taking place for the remainder of this week so the livestream is not available. The trial is scheduled to resume Tuesday, January 18, 2022.A trial has opened into the long-unsolved case of Sophie Sergie, an Alaska Native woman who was killed at the age of 20 nearly three decades ago. Sergie was Yupik from the village of Pitkas Point, located along the Yukon River in western Alaska. She was visiting a friend at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, a few hundreds miles away by plane, when she was murdered at a dorm on campus in April 1993. Sergie’s case went unsolved for decades. Meanwhile, the movement to address the crisis of missing and murdered Native people, especially women and girls, gained momentum throughout the nation. “In Alaska, the face we so often associate with the lack of progress when it comes to addressing the issue of missing and murdered Native women is the face of Sophie Sergie,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said in 2017, after the 24th anniversary of Sergie’s passing.
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