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Please do not suffer in silence.

It began with a discovery in the summer of 1980.

On a chilly July morning near Eklutna Lake, about an hour outside of Anchorage, Alaska,

a crew of electrical workers made a gruesome find.

Buried in a shallow grave beneath power lines was the partially scavenged body of a young woman. Animals had gotten to her remains,

and only a skeleton and a few tattered clothes and personal items were left. No name, no identification,

just a mystery. Investigators would call her a cloutna Annie, after the area in which she was

found. Who was this woman?

The autopsy indicated she had been dead for several months, likely killed by a stab wound

to the back.

She was small in stature, perhaps fifey tall, and possibly in her late teens or early

20s.

When Eklutna Annie was unearthed, she wore jeans, a knit sweater, and knee-high-red boots

along with some jewelry, a bracelet with turquoise stones, a shell necklace, and a Timex

watch.

These belongings hinted at a life that someone, somewhere, might remember.

But despite these clues, the police could not match her to any missing persons report.

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