{"id":3742,"date":"2016-12-25T09:02:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T17:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/fairbanks-police-close-old-homicide-case\/"},"modified":"2016-12-25T09:02:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T17:02:51","slug":"fairbanks-police-close-old-homicide-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/fairbanks-police-close-old-homicide-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairbanks police close old homicide case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FAIRBANKS \u2014 <\/strong>Fairbanks police say they have closed an old homicide case involving the death of a 60-year-old man at a local homeless camp after it was recently re-examined.<\/p>\n<p>Police say current investigators took a look at the June 2004 death of Edward Sikvayugak.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a suspect had been identified early in the original investigation, and had been forensically linked to the victim through DNA. But detectives at the time were unable to build a case.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, current investigators re-examined the case, and it was resubmitted for prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>Police say investigators, however, tried to contact the suspect. Police say it was discovered the suspect had suffered a \u201cdebilitating medical condition that would render them unable to aid in their own defense should the case be prosecuted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police say they will not release that individual\u2019s name and say there is no danger to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRBANKS \u2014 Fairbanks police say they have closed an old homicide case involving the death of a 60-year-old man at a local homeless camp after it was recently re-examined. Police say current investigators took a look at the June 2004 death of Edward Sikvayugak. Police say a suspect had been identified early in the original [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}