Saria Hildabrand was 21 when she died on August 6, 2023, in Anchorage, Alaska. Neighbors reported hearing a single gunshot about 2:45 a.m. in the hours after she and her husband returned from celebrating his 21st birthday. Responding officers initially found nothing suspicious, and the next day her husband reported her missing, saying she had left for work without her phone.

Days later investigators followed a trail that led beneath a pillow inside a storm drain along a nearby trail and found Hildabrand’s body with a gunshot wound to the head. Warrants executed at the couple’s apartment reportedly uncovered a mattress saturated with blood and signs of a cleanup, including the purchase of a new trash can after the shooting. On August 11, 2023, Anchorage police arrested her husband, 21-year-old U.S. Army soldier Zarrius Ray Hildabrand, and booked him on charges including first-degree and second-degree murder and tampering with evidence; a grand jury returned an indictment on those counts on August 18.

Anyone who knew Saria, her movements that weekend, or has information about what happened inside the apartment on August 6 is asked to come forward.