This is Murder in the Rain, where each week Emily Rowney, Alicia Holland and Josh McCullough

tell true crime stories of the Pacific Northwest.

Murder in the Rain contains graphic content, listener discretion is advised.

When a well known and adored nurse went missing an anchorage, the city was literally brought to a halt in searching for her.

It didn't take long for a suspect to catch the detective's attention.

Their concern wasn't just because he was a neighbor nor was it because he had outstanding warrants.

It was because he had been suspected of killing before.

For the next two episodes, I will be telling the stories of Della Brown, Mindy Schloss and Joshua Wade.

Three Alaskans whose lives and deaths would become intertwined, generating conversations about treatment of indigenous victims, state responsibility, and all of the hurt that could have been avoided.

Before we get into today's story, I would like to talk about my references.

If you would like to see photos and videos from the case, you can go to our blog at Murder in the Rain.com

and check out the second episode of the new Oxygen Show Fatal Frontier, Evil in Alaska.

Most of the story today has come from the book by Monty Francis, Ice and Bone, tracking an Alaskan serial killer.

You can find out more about that book and all of the other ones we've used for cases on our website under the tab Murder Reads.

Obviously, there is a lot more detail in the book.

My version of the story is about 45 pages, his is about 356, so there's clearly more to all of this.

I recommend the book for anyone interested in learning more about how the cases played out.

It definitely reads more so from a journalistic perspective, making it a bit more impersonal in its presentation than other true crime books.

But that being said, I still highly recommend it.

It was August 7th, 2007.

Kathy Hodges was worried about her friend Mindy Schloss.

Kathy lived six hours away from Anchorage and Fairbanks and knew Mindy from their work together in social services.

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