Samantha Koenig, 18, was finishing the late shift alone at the Common Grounds coffee stand on Tudor Road in Anchorage on February 1, 2012, when a masked customer forced his way in, zip-tied her hands, and marched her across the road to a white pickup. The abductor told her it was a kidnapping for ransom, retrieved her phone to send misleading texts, then drove her to a shed outside his home. She was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated before dawn; her body was later moved, posed with a current newspaper for a staged ransom photo, dismembered, and sunk through the ice at Matanuska Lake, where divers recovered remains on April 2, 2012.

Investigators followed ATM withdrawals made on Samantha’s card from Anchorage into Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, which led to a traffic stop in Lufkin on March 13, 2012. Officers found Samantha’s cell phone and ATM card in a white Ford Focus; 34-year-old Israel Keyes was arrested and later indicted in federal court for the abduction and killing. Keyes died by suicide in his Anchorage jail cell on December 2, 2012, before trial. No other person has been identified as connected to the crime.

Did anyone in the Anchorage area see unusual activity near Common Grounds or Connor’s Bog Park around that February night?