Connected in death: Inside APD’s months-long investigation into a string of homicides

ANCHORAGE – Five Anchorage homicide victims have little in common, other than the gun that killed them. Police also believe they were all just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
“These victims did not do anything to provoke their deaths, and it’s obvious that they probably never even saw it coming,” said Anchorage police Lt. John McKinnon in an interview with KTVA Wednesday.
The Colt Python .357 revolver APD found on suspect James Dale Ritchie, who died after initiati