MSP Makes Arrest in 1993 Alaska Cold Case After Alleged Killer Calls in Tip

Battle Creek man charged with murder in 33 year old Alaskan Cold Case

BATTLE CREEK, MI (WTVB) - Michigan State Police Fifth District Fugitive Team arrested 54-year-old Christopher Popps at a home in Battle Creek, in conn...

MSP makes arrest in 1993 Alaska cold case after alleged killer calls in tip

A man authorities say anonymously admitted to a decades-old murder nearly 3,000 miles away in Alaska is under arrest and awaiting extradition, Michigan State Police say.

An anonymous lead directed Alaska police to a man’s remains. Now that tipster is charged with murder.

Patrick Orville Dearth, 34, was living in Fairbanks, Alaska, when he vanished in 1993.

Nearly 33 years after Alaskan murder, a Battle Creek man is arrested

Police said he gave them anonymous tips confessing to killing Patrick Dearth in Fairbanks.