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Scott Michael Coville was 26 when he vanished from Sitka, Alaska; last contact is officially recorded as April 12, 1988, the day he turned 26. He and his wife Jane had been living together in a trailer after a recent marriage, and his mother reported him missing after she could not reach him around his birthday.

The missing-person file lay dormant until investigators reopened the case in 2007 and developed evidence tying the small home to Coville’s disappearance. According to investigators and later court proceedings, Jane described shooting him while he slept, dismembering his remains, and disposing of them so there was no body. Recorded conversations and forensic links to the residence converted the long-unsolved disappearance into a homicide investigation.

A Sitka grand jury indicted Jane Limm, also known as Jane Reth, on first-degree murder and evidence-tampering charges on January 8, 2010; she later pleaded to second-degree murder and admitted killing her husband. In March 2011 a judge imposed a 55-year sentence with 19 years suspended, leaving 36 years to serve. Does anyone have memories of Scott, the trailer where he lived, or information from Sitka in 1988 that could add detail to the timeline?