Anne Sears, the first Alaska Native woman to serve as an Alaska State Trooper, came out of retirement to serve as the state's first investigator focused on missing and murdered Indigenous people. She says it's 'about the only thing I would come back for.'
Anne Sears, who is the first Alaska Native woman to serve as an Alaska state trooper, retired after 22 years.
The state of Alaska’s first investigator focused specifically on missing and murdered Indigenous people has been on the job for about three weeks now, working on cases and sorting out how the new position will function., was the first Alaska Native woman to serve as an Alaska State Trooper. Now she’s back, trying to tackle a long-running problem: the disproportionate number of Indigenous people who go missing and are murdered in Alaska.
Along with her hopes for solving cases and bringing closure to families, Sears says she wants to bring more attention to the issue.: I think a lot of the problem that we have, just to start out with, is that we don’t shine enough of a light on it. I mean, even just me doing this for three weeks now, or going on three weeks, I’ve been contacted by folks that are just saying, “Hey, my sister, my friend — I know about this woman that was found.
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