What jumped off the page while reading this is:


"It's not clear what kind of life James Ritchie was living. He'd grown up in Anchorage before leaving the state for a time. He returned to Anchorage in February of this year, police said Tuesday.
The last place Ritchie lived was East Anchorage. Miller and McKinnon did not elaborate on how long he lived there. It wasn't clear how Ritchie filled his days since moving back to Alaska."

So, I'll infer from this article that there were unsolved murders elsewhere, in places that he lived during these decades of drifting.  Those poor families, now it starts all over again.