Alaska authorities on Friday arrested a 28-year-old woman in connection to a homicide that has gone unsolved in Juneau for more than a year, according to the Juneau Police Department.<\/p>\n
JPD announced the arrest of Nora Edith Thomas on Friday. Police said Thomas has been charged with second-degree murder for allegedly killing Christopher K. Kenney.<\/p>\n
In a phone interview, JPD Chief Bryce Johnson told the Empire that Thomas was arrested at about noon Friday inside her Palmer-Wasilla area home without incident. Johnson said JPD worked alongside the Wasilla and Palmer police departments to apprehend her. Thomas is now behind bars at the Matsu Pre-Trial Corrections facility in lieu of $250,000 bond, the police release states.<\/p>\n
Thomas was a former Juneau resident who left the capital city some time following Kenney\u2019s death, Johnson said.<\/p>\n
Kenney, a 50-year-old Juneau resident, was found with knife injuries inside a Gruening Park apartment in the 1800 block of Northwood Drive and died one day later, Nov. 29, 2014, at Bartlett Regional Hospital.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s arrest is the first known break in the case tied to the unsolved homicide.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe never quit working any murder investigation, even though unfortunately there were quite a few in the last year,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cIt\u2019s good to have this resolution. We hope it brings some closure for the family. It was a good piece of police work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Historically, homicides and murders are rare in Alaska\u2019s capital. Kenney\u2019s death was Juneau\u2019s sole homicide in 2014; before that, the last homicide was in 2010.<\/p>\n
Last year, however, there were an unprecedented spat of violent deaths. In October 2015, a 30-year-old man was fatally shot inside a trailer in the Mendenhall Valley. In November 2015, a local couple was murdered in Douglas. Before the end of November, another man was stabbed to death, also in Douglas.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Johnson said a JPD employee called Kenney\u2019s family to inform them of the arrest. A JPD detective was sent to the Palmer-Wasilla area a few days ago to prep for apprehending Thomas, Johnson added.<\/p>\n
Thomas does not have any prior criminal convictions in the state of Alaska, according to CourtView.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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