On the morning of May 11, 1994, 38-year-old John Michael Martin walked from the Village Inn on East Northern Lights Boulevard toward his home and never arrived. His body was found just off the bicycle path along Northern Lights, west of Princeton Drive, about 3:00 a.m., with a single close-range gunshot wound to the head. Anchorage police treated the death as a homicide and kept the case open for years without an arrest.

Martin was born July 30, 1955, in Seattle and moved to Alaska in 1979, spending his adult life there. In 2014 an individual named Joshua Wade told police and the FBI he was responsible for additional murders, and investigators said they believed Wade’s 1994 claim referred to Martin’s killing; that confession did not lead to a prosecution in this case. Public appeals for information have continued.

If anyone knew John Michael Martin, saw him that night, or has information about who may have pulled the trigger, please come forward.