38. Epidemic in Alaska: The Unsolved Murder of Brandon Irlmeier

New year, same podcast! We're ringing in 2024 with a case out of Anchorage, Alaska. 20-year-old Brandon Irlmeier was found beaten, strangled, and shot to death at the bottom of a stairwell. Six years later, his case is still unsolved. Brandon's murder is just one of more than 2,400 unsolved cases involving murdered and missing Alaska Natives in Alaska. It's a true Buried Byline. So we're digging into the reasons why and also giving you facts you didn't know you needed about the state of Alaska! SOURCES: https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/article/the-daily-beast-alaska-native-mans-unsolved-murder-part-of-epidemic https://www.bia.gov/service/mmu/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-people-crisis https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2021/12/03/brandon-irlmeier-was-murdered-northeast-anchorage-four-years-later-his-death-remains-unsolved/?outputType=amp https://www.thedailybeast.com/alaska-native-man-brandon-irlmeiers-unsolved-murder-in-anchorage-part-of-epidemic https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2023/03/25/more-than-statistic-family-homicide-victim-remembers-their-loved-one/?outputType=amp https://victimsforjustice.org/victim-voices/in-memory-of-brandon-christopher-irlmeier-may-9-1997-december-2-2017/ https://www.legacyalaska.com/obituaries/Brandon-Christopher-Irlmeier?obId=19078133 http://www.anchoragecrimestoppers.com/sitemenu.aspx?P=misc&D=1&ID=124