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Darryl Bruce Fawcett was 28 years old when he went missing in 1999. (Image via Juneau Police Department)

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Remains found in 2004 identified as Juneau man missing since 1999

Remains recovered in the Gastineau Channel were submitted to the state medical examiner, but never successfully identified.

Juneau resident Benjamin Stepetin is seen in downtown Juneau. He is currently missing and was last seen by family on Sunday, June 22, 2025. (Photo courtesy of family)

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Juneau police and family seek assistance in finding Benjamin Stepetin

Stepetin has been missing since June 22

Marites “Tess” Buenafe. (Screenshot) One of the two 60-passenger cars on the Goldbelt Mount Roberts Tramway descends Mount Roberts. (Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire file photo)

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Missing cruise ship passenger found dead on Mount Roberts

This story has been updated.

Wayne Price (center), carver of the healing totem pole Kaasei Satú at Twin Lakes, dances on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day on Monday, May 5, 2025. (Jasz Garrett / Juneau Empire)

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Community seeks healing through culture on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Day

Family and friends remember victims in ceremony, dance, artwork; “We shouldn’t have to do this.”

Nathan Bishop, 58, has been missing since Saturday evening, according to the Juneau Police Department. (Photo provided by the Juneau Police Department)

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Search continuing for Juneau resident Nathan Bishop, 58, missing since Saturday evening

Police say Bishop “physically able, but suffers from Parkinson’s and dementia.”

A man sought by the police after his family reported him missing turned himself in and was detained on Wednesday morning. (Michael S. Lockett / Juneau Empire File)

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Missing man found, arrested

He contacted police early Wednesday morning.

Courtesy photo / JPD Police are seeking information on Lucas Canton Schneider, 43, after he failed to return from a camping trip to Echo Cove in late June.

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Police seeking information on man missing near Echo Cove

He went camping out the road in late June and hasn’t been seen since.

The Juneau Police Department stood up a new missing persons database to help the community in the search for the lost. (Michael S. Lockett / Juneau Empire File)

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Police launch local missing people database

It’s meant to help the police and community work together to find missing persons more quickly.

The Alaska Medical Examiner identified a body found Thursday as a man missing from Juneau since late October 2021. (Courtesy photo / Juneau Police Department)

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Body found Thursday ID’d as missing man

The state medical examiner is still investigating the cause of death.

A number of people in Juneau have gone missing in 2021, including Clifford White, bottom left, who hasn’t been located. (Composite photo / Juneau Empire)

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Rescues and recoveries: Police, searchers talk recent missing persons cases

2021 has had a number of high-profile missing persons cases.

A man missing for more than 40 years was identified by the Alaska Bureau of Investigation as a Chugiak resident who was last seen in 1979 before being discovered murdered years before on an island near Anchorage in 1989. (Courtesy photo / Alaska Department of Public Safety)

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Body found in ’80s ID’d with DNA analysis

The body, found in 1989, had been unidentified until now.

Police and family are search for 29-year-old Clifford K. White, missing for several weeks, and last seen near Switzer Village. (Courtesy photo / Juneau Police Department)

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Family seeks information on missing man as search continues

He’s been missing for several weeks, and was last seen in Switzer Village.

Douglas Shockley, 63, was found dead near the Dredge Lake Trail on Monday after going missing over the weekend, said a police spokesperson. (Courtesy photo / JPD)

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Missing hiker found dead near Dredge Lake

He went hiking on Saturday

Agencies and family members are searching for a man reported missing on Sept. 29, 2021, whose truck was found near Perseverance Trail. (Courtesy photo / Juneau Police Department)

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Search continues for man reported missing in September

The 32-year-old man has been missing for nearly a month.

Police are working to identify a body found near the Auke Bay Ferry Terminal on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. (Michael Penn / Juneau Empire)

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Police working on identifying body found near ferry terminal

It appears to be male but it’s been outdoors for a significant period of time.

Agencies and family members are searching for a man reported missing on Sept. 29, 2021, whose truck was found near Perseverance Trail. (Courtesy photo / Juneau Police Department)

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Authorities, family searching for missing man

His truck was found near Perseverance Trail.

Karen Harris took a walk up Basin Road at around 10:00 a.m. on Saturday , according to Juneau Police Department. At 9 p.m., police reported she was home safe. (Courtesy Photo / JPD)

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Update: Overdue woman home safe

Police say she is safe.

Geraldine Nelson, 78, is the subject of a search-and-rescue operation run by the Juneau Police Department. Police describe Nelson as Alaska Native, roughly 5 foot 1, about 120 pounds and last seen wearing a black winter coat and black pants.(Courtesy Photo)

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Update: Search for missing woman continues

Alaska State Troopers, SEADOGS, JMR, and Tlingit and Haida are all involved in search efforts.

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Chairman Andy Teuber introduces U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar at a press conference at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020, in Anchorage. The U.S. Coast Guard was searching for an overdue helicopter piloted by Teuber who is the former head of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. Teuber had resigned last week after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced against him which he denied. Teuber left Anchorage about 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 2, 2021, in a black and white Robinson R66 helicopter en route to Kodiak Island. (Loren Holmes / Anchorage Daily News)

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Search for missing helicopter, pilot near Kodiak suspended

The former president of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium has not been recovered.

A helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Sitka carries out training in Juneau, Alaska, June 26, 2018. (Petty Officer 1st Class Jon-Paul Rios | U.S. Coast Guard)

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Coast Guard suspends search for Sitka kayaker

His kayak was found capsized on Monday.