On July 3, 2017, 76-year-old Nadya Vehrs of Anchorage was found dead on the property of a home in the 11000 block of Hillside Drive after a welfare check prompted officers to search beyond the house. Officers had checked the residence the evening before and found no one home; when they returned the next day they discovered two bodies in a wooded area behind the garage. Detectives concluded by July 5 that the incident was a murder-suicide.

Police publicly identified 75-year-old Larry Vehrs, Nadya’s husband, on July 6 and said evidence indicated he fatally shot Nadya before taking his own life. The absence of a struggle and lack of any ongoing threat in the neighborhood were cited in the investigators’ finding. No arrests were made and no other suspects were named.

Did anyone in the Hillside Drive area know the Vehrs family or have information about their last days?