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Jeff Diffee, 39, was beaten, handcuffed, and stabbed seventeen times in his Juneau apartment after meeting a long-haul trucker at a local bar in mid-March 1991. His body was discovered on March 14, 1991. Diffee, a miner at the Greens Creek silver mine, was described as having welcomed the stranger back to his place; the attack shocked the small community beneath the Mendenhall Glacier.

Investigators quickly focused on John Joseph Fautenberry. Fingerprints and other evidence tied Fautenberry to the scene, and he was arrested in Juneau within days. In August 1991 he pleaded guilty in Alaska state court to murdering Jeff Diffee and received a 99-year sentence. The case closed in Alaska with that conviction and sentence.

Did anyone in Juneau at the time have memories of Diffee or details about his movements in the days before March 14, 1991?