In Nome, Alaska, review of rape ‘cold cases’ hits a wall

The two cops — the cold case detective from Virginia and the evidence technician from Alaska — had a mission.Sift through more than a decade of grim stories from this small city set between the Bering Strait and Alaska’s western tundra.Nome’s new police chief, another Virginia transplant, asked the two to untangle whether the city’s police department had failed hundreds of people — most of them Alaska Native women — who had reported they’d been sex