Who Murdered the Benolkens?
12 min readNov 26, 2022
Who brutally raped and murdered James and Anne Benolken in their Juneau apartment in 1982? Nearly four decades later, many questions remain unanswered.
On April 13th, 1982, a Juneau resident named Martha noticed broken glass in her neighbor’s apartment window. Martha worked on the Marine Highway ferry system, and after a stint on the ferry, she had just returned to her home at the Lower F & L apartment building on…