Ronald R. Ernst, a 41-year-old Caucasian man, died on May 4, 1985. He is buried in McGahan Cemetery in Nikiski under a veterans headstone that lists him as a U.S. Navy Aviation Machinist’s Mate Third Class who served during the Vietnam era. Online family-history entries and a short memorial confirm the date of death but give only sparse biographical detail.

A crowd-sourced crime-tracking entry places the death in Anchorage and describes it as a killing, but offers no scene description, weapon, or time of day. Cold-case roundups and public repositories show no reported arrests and no named suspects in connection with his death. The available record is thin and leaves key facts unanswered.

If anyone knew Ronald Ernst or has information about what happened around May 4, 1985, please share what is known.