Sophie Macar was 44 when her body was found on May 12, 1995, in Anchorage’s Mountain View neighborhood, in a narrow space between a house on 4th Avenue and the American Tire Warehouse off Unga Street. The scene was described as brutal and deliberate: she had been struck in the face and strangled, and a wooden pallet was pulled over her body. Her pants were missing, a detail that suggests a possible sexual component while also indicating a hurried attempt to remove evidence.

No suspect has been publicly named and no one has been charged; the case remains part of Anchorage’s cold files. Her death is also remembered in discussions of violence against Indigenous women in Alaska. If anyone knew Sophie, her movements that night, or saw anything on that block on May 12, 1995, please share what you know.