Who was James Dale Ritchie?

James Dale Ritchie wasn’t on the Anchorage Police Department’s radar. It wasn’t until he came in contact with APD by happenstance Saturday, when Ritchie shot at an officer responding to a theft. Officers fired back, killing him.
What police detectives found as they investigated the scene, turned out to be a major break in their ongoing investigation into several unsolved homicides. APD says ballistic evidence proves the gun Ritchie used is the same gun used