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Someone Is Getting Away with Eunice Whitman’s Killing. Alaska’s Slow Justice System Let It Happen.

Justine Paul was indicted on flawed evidence. A defense witness wrote that police should have treated no fewer than 12 people as suspects of “higher interest.” A decade after the killing, no one has been convicted in Whitman’s death.

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Someone is getting away with Eunice Whitman’s killing

Marcy McDannel slid a photograph across the steel jailhouse table to the convicted killer and watched his face for a reaction. Samuel Atchak, 27 at the time, was serving 115 years for an unusual killing. One August morning in 2014, a young woman was found stabbed in the throat and chest, her body displayed nude on the tundra at the center of the coastal Alaska village of Chevak and her clothes placed nearby. Atchak pleaded guilty to second-degre…

4 days ago·Washington, United States

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