On the morning of July 3, 2016, a bicyclist on the Ship Creek bike path near North Post Road in Anchorage found the bodies of 20-year-old Brianna Foisy and 41-year-old Jason Netter Sr.; both had been fatally shot. Foisy was living transiently at the time and had a history of substance abuse. Investigators recovered ballistic fragments but no shell casings, consistent with a revolver being used, and witnesses reported hearing gunshots between 3:00 and 5:00 a.m.

Later in 2016 police determined the weapon was a Colt Python .357 revolver. Ballistics testing linked that revolver to at least four other Anchorage homicides from the summer of 2016. The suspect was identified as 40-year-old James Dale Ritchie; on November 12, 2016, officers confronted him after he was tied to a separate shooting, and he was killed after opening fire on an officer and being engaged by police. Forensic and investigative work concluded Ritchie was responsible for the killings of Brianna Foisy and Jason Netter Sr.

Did anyone in the Anchorage area know Foisy or see activity along the Ship Creek bike path the night of July 2–3, 2016?