Identified! AK - Anchorage, Remains in Remote Area of Big Lake, Apr 2019 - Dolly Hampton

[Gardener1850]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers say human remains have been found at a remote spot in Big Lake.

Troopers say positive identification of the remains was not possible because of their exposure to the elements.

Human remains found at remote spot in Big Lake

The body was found on April 3 around 8 p.m., according to the Alaska State Troopers. Officers responded to a remote part of Big Lake after a report of someone finding the body.

AST wrote in a report that, due to exposure to the elements, "positive identification of the remains was impossible."

Instead, the remains will be sent to the State Medical Examiner's office to be identified with more advanced methods.

Human remains found in remote Big Lake area; identity of deceased unknown so far

 

[Gardener1850]

Two people missing from the Big Lake area:

Wallace Wilkinson Dunn The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
Wallace Dunn was last seen in Anchorage, Alaska on 7/11/13 heading to his cabin in Big Lake, Alaska. He was driving a 1998 Ford Truck which was later located near his cabin. His clothing description is unknown.

Daniel Roy Buckwalter The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
Daniel Roy Buckwalter was last seen at his residence in Big Lake, AK on 08/05/15. His vehicle was later located abandoned in Houston, AK. Circumstances surrounding his disappearance are suspicious.

 

[dotr]

July 2014
Missing in Alaska without a trace
"Most recent disappearances
The June before Griffis faded away into the wilderness, Sue Nott, 36, and Karen McNeill, 37, went missing on 17,400-foot Mount Foraker in the Alaska Range. No sign of the well-known mountaineers has ever been found. There are cases like this all over the state.

Good Samaritan Gerald DeBerry disappeared in the foothills of the White Mountains while helping for a search for a missing woman in the fall of 2011. She was found safe. Almost exactly a year later, the four-wheeler the 53-year-old DeBerry was riding when he went missing was discovered, but there were no remains or trace of the rider.

And not even a hint has been found to indicate where 31-year-old Thomas Seibold may have gone. He faded into the Brooks Range of northern Alaska just about the time DeBerry’s four-wheeler was discovered along the White Mountains in the Interior. Seibold, like Griffis and a host of others gone missing, was an adventurer — and a competent one.

He’d spent years schooling himself in ancient ways of living off the land. He was, by all accounts, good at it. The hike of roughly 30 miles he planned from a cabin where he was staying along the upper Ambler River to the village of Kobuk, where he planned to catch an airplane flight back to join his wife in Wisconsin, should not have been a problem.

And yet, something happened, and he disappeared without a trace into a land that sometimes leaves few traces. Consider that it has been 30 years since Japanese national hero Naomi Uemera went missing after the first successful winter ascent of Mount McKinley.

Even most of those in the steadily shrinking pool of people who remember Uemura have pretty much given up hope that any sign of him will ever be found."

 

[Catmommy]

The climate, the landscape and the indigenous wildlife can be extremely harsh and unforgiving. There we are not the top of the food chain. Nature has no qualms about reminding us of this. I hope the recovery of these remains brings somebody home at last to those who love and have been wondering about them. May they all be found some day.

 

[doodles1211]

Identified as Dolly Hampton of Wasilla. She is a homicide victim.

Alaska State Troopers have identified the remains found near Big Lake last week. Troopers say 57-year-old Dolly Hampton, of Wasilla, is the victim of a homicide.

Troopers have identified a suspect, who is currently in jail for another crime, but have not released that person's name.

Hampton was reported missing December 6 of 2018 by a family member from the Wasilla area.

Big Lake remains found to be missing Wasilla woman