Jerry Elrod, 21, and 23-year-old Kathy Morris were found stabbed to death inside Morris’s apartment on Slater Drive in Fairbanks in the early hours of October 1, 1983. The scene indicated the violence occurred at home, and detectives treated the deaths as a deliberate attack from the start. Beyond the discovery inside the apartment, investigators have had very little to fix the timeline, and the case has circulated on local cold-case lists with those core facts repeated: two young people killed in her residence, both stabbed, discovered October 1, 1983.

No arrests have been announced, and the file remains open. At times authorities asked anyone who might have picked up a hitchhiker on the Richardson Highway that morning to come forward, one of several limited leads investigators pursued. Does anyone have memories or information about movements around Fairbanks or the Richardson Highway on the night of September 30–October 1, 1983?