Anesha Katherine Duffy Murnane was 38 and living in supportive housing in downtown Homer, Alaska, when she left for a short medical appointment on October 17, 2019, and never arrived. Surveillance captured her leaving the housing complex at about 12:15 p.m. Search dogs followed her scent through downtown until the trail ended near Pioneer Avenue, suggesting she had entered or been taken away in a vehicle. Initial reports of a possible sighting later that afternoon did not become the focus of the investigation.

Searches by police, troopers, firefighters, volunteers and community members covered roads, beaches, trails, abandoned buildings, cabins and shops; a helicopter and all-terrain vehicles were used, and a coordinated door-to-door effort in November 2019 involved about 50 residents. Investigators treated the circumstances as suspicious. Evidence later tied former facility employee Kirby Calderwood to the case: his then-wife told police he confessed to killing Murnane, forensic testing recovered Murnane’s DNA from a crawlspace linked to Calderwood, and a watch identified as hers was found in his former Utah residence alongside a missing-person flyer. Murnane’s remains have not been recovered.

Did anyone in Homer know Anesha Duffy Murnane or have information about her movements on October 17, 2019?