Brandon Irlmeier’s death is just one of 4,200 cases involving murdered and missing Alaska Natives that have gone unsolved and been largely ignored.
Nancy Furlow knew something was wrong with her 20-year-old grandson Brandon the moment the phone rang at 1 a.m. on a winter morning and a “woman with a very cold voice” told her two police officers were at her front door.
Brandon Christopher Irlmeier, or Yeil Yugóo as he was called in Tlingit, was just months away from celebrating his 21st birthday when he was severely beaten and strangled before being shot near Sixth Avenue and Oklahoma Street in Anchorage, Alaska on Dec. 3, 2017. He was declared dead at 9:43 p.m. Furlow told The Daily Beast she believes it was Brandon’s attempt to help another addict that resulted in his murder.
The Anchorage Police Department told The Daily Beast that Brandon’s case “is still an open and active investigation” and as a result they would not provide “any additional details at this time.”An initial police report from the time, obtained by The Daily Beast, states that detectives were initially seeking three suspects—all males aged in their late teens or early twenties—who were captured on CCTV footage near the area where Brandon was killed.
“We think it is the murderers or someone close to them. They always come and rip down the cards we make, the wreaths we have there. Then last year they put a bullet in one of the flowers there and we felt it was a threat or a warning to us. They also took an accelerant and burned the entire wreath and cross we had until there were just ashes left,” she said. “The police told us no other memorials in the Anchorage area are being vandalized. It is just his.
Visiting all 229 tribes in person across America’s largest state that stretches for 665,400 square miles—more than two-and-a-half times the size of Texas—presents many challenges. “Another problem has been the huge misunderstanding that you had to wait 24 or 48 hours to report. That is just not the case, reporting needs to happen immediately. A couple of things happen in Alaska when you report immediately—it triggers the state search and rescue, which helps provide funding for fuel, or vehicles to help with locating someone.
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