Roger Francis Culp, a 33-year-old white man, vanished from the Fairbanks area on April 28, 1984. He was last seen that evening walking to the nearby cabin of his neighbor, 25-year-old drifter and former Army marksman Michael Alan Silka. Witnesses later reported hearing a rapid series of gunshots soon after Culp entered the cabin; blood was found in the snow and the area around the cabin fell suddenly silent.

Alaska State Troopers sought Silka for questioning in Culp’s disappearance and presumed killing, and by late May the search had shifted inland after authorities said Silka had left the Fairbanks area. Three weeks after Culp went missing, Silka was identified as the suspect in a separate mass killing near Manley Hot Springs; when troopers closed in on May 19 a firefight on the Zitziana River left Trooper Troy L. Duncan dead and Silka killed under return fire. Culp’s body was never recovered and no arrests were made in his disappearance; he is memorialized as a gun-violence victim.

Does anyone have memories of Culp, his last known movements in Fairbanks on April 28, 1984, or information that could help fill the gaps in what happened that night?