A 24-year-old woman is facing murder charges for two killings within days of each other this month in Anchorage’s Sand Lake neighborhood.
they were called to a business on the 3800 block of West Dimond Boulevard because 34-year-old Gregory Pitka was found dead outside.had been located and questioned, but it wasn’t until more than a week later that an arrest was made in the killing. Police did not say if Wassillie was the person of interest identified after Pitka’s death.
She was remanded Sunday to Hiland Mountain Correctional Center on two charges of first-degree murder and a count of misconduct with a corpse.Tess Williams is a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News, focusing on breaking news. Before joining the ADN in 2019, she was a reporter for the Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota and previously helped cover the Nebraska Legislature for The Associated Press. Contact her at [email protected].
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