Doris Bernice Ransom, an Alaska Native woman aged 54, was found dead in Davis Park in Anchorage’s Mountain View neighborhood on October 7, 1997. Investigators determined she had been bludgeoned and her body was discovered face up on the park ground that autumn morning. Patrol cars and detectives secured the scene and crime-scene tape was placed among the trees as canvasses and appeals for witnesses followed, but no breakthrough was reported.

Doris had ties to Sand Point in the Aleutians and was later buried at Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery. The case remained open with no public identification of a weapon, no publicly named suspects, and no arrests announced. Her killing is remembered locally and has been cited in discussions about unsolved attacks on Indigenous women in the area.

If anyone remembers seeing something in Davis Park on October 7, 1997, or has information that could help investigators, please come forward.