Robin Louise Horseshoe-Harriet Pelkey was a 19-year-old white woman who disappeared from Anchorage in the early 1980s while living on the margins of the city. Partial skeletal remains found near Horseshoe Lake by Palmer on April 25, 1984 were long known to investigators as Horseshoe Harriet. Examiners determined the remains showed she had been stabbed and shot.

Robert Hansen was arrested in October 1983 and by February 1984 had admitted in a plea deal to multiple murders and led troopers to burial sites; he served a sentence totaling 461 years. Decades later modern forensic genealogy produced a new DNA profile that led investigators to a close relative, and kinship testing at the State of Alaska Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory confirmed Horseshoe Harriet’s identity as Robin Pelkey, born in 1963 in Colorado and living in Anchorage when she was killed. A grave marker bearing her name was placed.

If anyone knew Robin Pelkey, her movements in Anchorage in 1983, or has information about her life, please share what is known.