Martha Toms, a 35-year-old Native American woman from Anchorage, was found severely beaten beneath a picnic table in Lyons Park in the Mountain View neighborhood on September 22, 2005. First responders transported her to a local hospital, where she died a short time later. The Anchorage Police Department opened a homicide investigation, logged as APD case 05-42965, and sought public help while detectives worked to reconstruct her final hours in the park.

Investigators did not announce any arrests in the months and years that followed, and no suspect or suspects were publicly identified. The homicide remains listed among Anchorage’s unsolved killings and is repeatedly cited in local discussions about violence against Native women and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples. Authorities continue to ask anyone who might have seen or heard something at Lyons Park that night to come forward with information.