Glinda Sodemann was 19 when she vanished from the Fairbanks–North Pole area on August 29, 1979. She was a young wife and new mother; her infant daughter was found unattended in the crib when her husband returned home that day. Two months later, decomposed remains were located in a gravel pit along the Richardson Highway about twenty-two to twenty-three miles south of Fairbanks, near Moose Creek.

Autopsy findings indicated she had been strangled and shot, with some reports describing a gunshot wound to the head. Investigators initially examined those close to her but did not make an arrest. Her death became the first recognized killing in a string of similar murders around Fairbanks from 1979 to 1981, linked by strangulation, gunshot trauma, and remote dump sites south of the city.

Investigators later focused on Technical Sergeant Thomas Richard Bunday, who had been stationed at Eielson Air Force Base; in March 1983 he gave statements admitting to five Alaska victims and said the sequence began with Glinda Sodemann. A procedural lapse at the time of his confession resulted in his release pending a warrant; he died in a March 15, 1983 motorcycle crash that was ruled a suicide before any arrest or trial. No one was ever arrested or convicted for Glinda Sodemann’s murder.

Did anyone in the Fairbanks–North Pole area know Glinda or remember her in the weeks before August 29, 1979?