Young Woman Self Exits W/ Gun Longer Than Arms In Mayor's Home - 2 Yrs Later Another Girl Is Dead

Bada bing, bada boom. >> 6:00 p.m. in Katsubu, Alaska. It means. absolutely nothing because in Katsbu. it's always either very bright or always. very dark. There is I mean that's really. not a metaphor. This is not something. deeper. It's always either sunny all day. long until you drive yourself crazy at. night because you need to block out any. light that's coming in through the. window so that you can fall asleep at. 11:00 p.m. or you get 3 hours of. sunlight the entire day and then you.

just live in perpetual darkness. There. is no middle ground like most places. To. give you a point of reference, in New. York City during the summer you get. about 14 hours of sunlight. During the. winter you get closer to 10 hours of. sunlight, but it is pretty standard. You. know, usually during the winter, the sun. sets at 5:00 p.m. During the summer, it's closer to 8:00 p.m. That's not what. happens in Katsubu. Katsubu is above the. Arctic Circle, which means the winters. are almost pitch black all night, all. day long,

>> but it's in the US. >> Yeah, in Alaska. >> Okay. >> It's actually closer to Russia than it. is to Anchorage, Alaska. It's very. interesting. Now, the area north of the. Arctic Circle is probably only about 4%. of the Earth's entire surface. And all. you really need to know is that if you. live above the Arctic Circle, things. like daytime, nighttime, it doesn't mean. anything. During the winter time, it. feels like Katsubu has some sort of. dread countdown [music] that starts in. September. September starts, you wake. up, sun rises at noon, 11:57 a.m. noon,

when half the workday is already over. for most of everybody else. And then the. sun sets before you're even out of the. office at 3:21 p.m. Barely 3 hours and. 24 minutes of actual sun. But that's not. even the worst of it. Each day of early. December, shave off another 5 to 7. minutes of daylight. In Katsubu, the. shortest day of the year is December. 21st. Sun rises just right around 1:00. p.m. and sets at 2:39 p.m.

>> Wow. >> You get 2 hours and 5 minutes of. sunlight and that's it. And also, this. is not 2 hours of high UV go outside and. just get blessed with the vitamin D just. blasting in the summer sun. That's not. what it is. The sun does not go more. than a few degrees over the horizon. So, it feels like a very eerie 2-hour long. golden hour and then it's just gone. And. sometimes it's not even just pitch. black. There's a lot of residents, they. say that they actually prefer pitch. blackness in the winter, but they have.

these hours that they call blue hours. [music] and everything is like a really. haunting, intense, saturated blue. It's. not bright, it's not dark, but it's just. like everything is a blue tint. During. the winter, Alaskans have a term called. big dark. It's just like a heavy weight. that you feel during the winter time. Even though there might not be anything. inherently wrong, you just feel like. everything is wrong. It's likely due to. the melatonin production in the body and. serotonin also crashes when there's less. light input. So you have surging. melatonin, falling serotonin and Alaska.

has one of the highest rates of seasonal. depression in the entire country. Someone who moved to a town north of the. Arctic Circle thought it's going to be. easy. It's going to be easy to acclimate. because quote, you know, I knew it would. take some time to acclimate for it, but. I I thought I prepared. I love the cold. I love the dark. I've always wanted to. go somewhere dark and cold because I. feel like I would thrive in this. climate. I was dead wrong. I did not. realize how much humans rely on light. and dark cycles. I've tried to become.

more physically active by going on daily. walks and taking all my vitamin D. supplements, but my mind [music] is. beyond [ __ ] And then the minute that. you adjust, it's time for summer. Starting in May, Katsub suddenly never. gets dark. The sun rises at 5:53 a.m. and then it sets at midnight. [laughter]. >> Damn, >> you have nearly 18 hours of sunlight. Well, that's just the beginning. Eventually, the sun is going to be up. for close to 23 hours. >> That is crazy to be living.

>> in a place like this. >> And when that, you know, 23 hours of the. 24 hours, that doesn't mean that you. have that 1 hour of like pitch darkness. It never really transitions into dark. either. So, it just always feels like. daytime. And that is when a call is made. to 911. 6:00 p.m. May 2018, 911 gets a. call in Katsub that someone might be. dead. >> 5:30, we're north of the alleyway, 51st. Street. >> Two officers from the local police. department. They drive up to the house.

in question. They walk up to the front. door and it doesn't really strike them. as the type of house where something bad. is happening inside. They swing open the. front door. It's open. And in the living. room, there are two small children. watching Spongebob on the TV. It's kind. of like a weird feeling. [music] One of. the officers gets one of the kids. attention. Did Did someone call the. police? One of the young boys points to. the bedroom door. Okay, very strange. The officers start walking closer to the. door in question. It's partially open.

and when they peer in, there is a man. holding a woman's body. This man is. coated in blood. His clothes are soaked. in blood. his arms, his pants, any part. of this man named Anthony that the. police can see, there is blood coating. Anthony. And the woman that he's holding. is this small 25-year-old Inupiac. indigenous woman. She's in a fetal. position. There's this 22 caliber rifle. laying nearby and the officers glance. around and they do notice blood splatter. on the floor, the dresser, mattress,

blankets. There's even a few plastic. totes on the ground nearby that's. covered in blood splatter. She's been. shot under her chin. Her name is. Jennifer Kirk and she's now dead. The. man holding her body, Anthony, he speaks. up first. He's her boyfriend. He says he. was in the living room watching. Spongebob with the two kids when he. heard this pop sound go off. It sounded. like a firework inside the bedroom. So, he runs in. He finds her on the ground. bleeding heavily from her head. Quote, "I have no idea what happened." The.

investigators, they place Jennifer's. body into a body bag to transport to the. medical examiner's office. That bag is. sealed with a tag number 0010959. The investigators, they notice a few. things. I mean, first they pull out a. tape measure. They measure the rifle. from the tip of the barrel. So, this is. where the bullet comes out. It exits the. gun at that point. And then the tip of. the trigger, not the handle, not the. other end of the gun, the trigger. You. need to press this for the gun to fire. It is 27 [music]. and 1/8 in long. And then they measure.

Jennifer's arm. Jennifer's arm is 26 in. [music] and 316 in long. Her arm is. shorter than the trigger to the barrel. Her arm is shorter than the gun, but. they believe she self-exited. Then at the morg, as the medical. examiner unseals the body bag number. 0010959, they notice red markings around Jennifer. Kirk's neck and there's clear handprints. around her neck. So, Jennifer Kirk did.

not just sustain a fatal gunshot wound. She was strangled before she died. The. investigators, they do not ask the next. obvious questions. Instead, they close. the case within one day of. investigating. And they state that. Jennifer Kirk sadly tragically. self-exited. They don't ask the man. Anthony to test his hands or his clothes. for gunshot residue. They don't look. into his past [music] cuz he has a past. record of abuse and essay. They barely. question him. They don't candace the. neighborhood. They don't interview.

anyone that might know something. They. also don't go into the house and turn it. upside down searching every square inch. for any sort of evidence because after. all, it would be kind of weird to search. the mayor's house, right? Anthony. Richards, the man covered in blood, is. the son of Clement Richards [music]. Senior, the mayor of the Northwest. Arctic Bureau. How could a mayor's son. ever [music] turn out to be a killer? And even if they find another body in. that house 2 years after Jennifer Kirk,

do they really need to do something. about it? [music]. >> [music]. >> We would like to thank today's sponsors. who have made it possible for Rotten. Mango to support the Manilac. Association. They are an indigenously. operated nonprofit that provides.

highquality, culturally relevant health, social, and tribal services in the. Northwest Arctic Bureau. This episode's. partnerships have also made it possible. to support Rott Mango's growing team. And we would also like to thank you guys. for your continued support. I will say. that there is this huge expose done with. ProPublica and Anchorage Daily News with. the journalist Kyle Hopkins. It's so. informative. They went and they spoke to. so many people in town. They did. investigative boots on the ground. investigative work and it's just a great.

piece of journalism. So, please go take. a look at that. With that being said, today's case involves mentions of. self-exit. gun violence. However, the biggest thing. to be aware of it involves missing and. murdered indigenous peoples. There's. going to be especially sensitive. conversations about institutional. racism, systemic neglect, police. negligence, misconduct, prosecutorial. failures. So, please, if you feel. overwhelmed, take a break and I will see. you in the next one. Statements and. quotes have been condensed for brevity. Everything researched for this video was. found publicly available and that is in.

common statements, speculations, and. accusations are not our own and are only. mentioned for comprehensive reporting. So, with that being said, nobody has. been charged, but I have my opinions. Being a political figure is all about. how you deal with a scandal. Almost all. the time. It's a scandal that is caused. by their own actions, but nevertheless, it is how they bounce back from the. scandal. It's not even about the scandal. itself. Sometimes it requires you take. the [ __ ] that is thrown at you for good. reason. You deserve [ __ ] thrown at you,

but then you take it and you throw it. back at somebody else. You think I'm. bad? Go look at that person. Did you see. what they said? Sometimes it's all about. ignore the giant elephant in the room. You ignore it so much that everybody. else gets used to the elephant being in. the room. It's like how you forget how. to blink or breathe because you're just. always doing it. You're always breathing. and blinking without addressing it. So, everyone forgets that the elephant is in. there. And then once in a while, someone. will walk into the press room and go, "Holy [ __ ] there's an elephant in.

here." [clears throat] And everyone go, "Forgot about the [ __ ] elephant." or. sometimes the comeback requires going to. jail and serving your time. It feels. like most mayors have their scandal at. some point in their careers. Are you. really a politician if you're not? Probably in the Epstein files. Former. mayor of DC, Marann Barry, thankfully. not in the Epstein files. I will say. this, this is historically one of the. biggest mayoral scandals. And this is. not me saying that this is like the. worst thing a mayor has done. It's just.

historically known as a massive mayor's. scandal. It's the crack scandal. And I. will say for all that Maryanne Barry and. all that he did that was kind of bad. Okay, because most and all mayors seem. to be bad. There always is some level of. corruption. The standard is all mayors. are bad. Some just do a little bit more. good than bad for their own citizens. It. does need to be noted that Marian Barry. had some very bad streaks. Marian Barry. was the former DC Washington DC mayor.

and he was known as the chocolate king. of the chocolate city. They called it. the chocolate city and he did I will say. like people love Marian but he was known. for having a lot of hot takes. He. offended Polish Americans by calling. them a slur. He then stated that he. would like to quote do something about. these Asians coming in opening. businesses those dirty shops. They ought. to go. >> and do something about these Asians. coming in open up business. these little. dirty shops and getting they ought to go. and stay there right now. >> Then he offended Filipino Americans by.

pointing out that there's so many nurses. immigrating from the Philippines into. the United States to, you know, save. lives. And he says, "And no offense, but. let's grow our own teachers. Let's grow. our own nurses so that we don't have to. be scing around in our community clinics. and other kinds of places having to hire. people from somewhere else." So he. managed, yeah, to piss off a lot of. communities, but he loved his own. people. And for that, a lot of people. just could not fault him. As mayor of. DC, he increased the share of government. contracts awarded to blackowned. businesses from 5% to 40%. He also.

required private corporations doing. businesses in Washington DC to appoint. women and minorities to leadership. positions. One tribute about Barry's. work says, quote, single-handedly. expanded the black middle class in DC. and created a generation of black. millionaires in a time when economic and. cultural segregation was rampant. He was also notorious for like driving. around the city and if he saw someone on. the street, he'd be like, "Do you have a. job?" And they would say, "No." And. they'd get a job by the afternoon. He.

wanted everyone to have a job. Yeah. >> Wow. >> I would hope that his discriminatory. remarks against Asians, Polish people. I. mean, I hope it was a big learning. moment for him, a moment of growth. But. regardless, he won reelection countless. times. And regardless of these remarks, he just keeps getting elected and. elected. And he honestly did change the. trajectory of so many famil family's. lives probably with generational impact. Like ultimately Mary and Barry did a lot. of good. But then he smoked crack. And.

this was a huge thing. So for years. federal investigators, they've been. trying to get Barry on something. You. have to wonder if it's almost like they. chose their target and they're just. waiting for something to come up so that. they could take Marian Barry down. They. didn't like that a black Democrat kept. winning mayor for Washington DC. >> [applause]. >> When was this? >> Oh, this was long time ago. Decades ago. He's he's since passed. >> Okay. Okay. >> But this is probably one of the biggest. mayoral scandals that there ever was.

Um, this is like back when mayors did. regular crimes of corruption and drugs, and now they do like Epstein crimes. M. m. >> So, you know, they get Mayor Barry's. ex-girlfriend come in, the feds, the. FBI, and she's also under pressure. The. FBI are being overwhelmingly nice to. her. And she agrees to set up a room, a. hotel room outfitted with two secret. cameras, courtesy of the FBI. And just 3. days before Mayor Barry is going to. announce that he's going to run for.

mayor for the fourth term, he walks into. the hotel room and he wants to rekindle. this relationship romantically. She. denies, especially because there's just. another strange woman sitting in the. corner of the room. Her name is Wanda, but her name is not really Wanda because. she's an FBI undercover agent. And so. she's sitting there and she's like, "Oh, I'm just a friend of your ex-girlfriend. Do you want to smoke crack?". Mayor Barry is like, "No." She then asks. him again, "Are you sure you don't want. to smoke crack?" He's like, "No, I don't.

want to smoke crack." And then she. brings it up again and again. And. finally, Mayor Barberry picks up the. crackpipe, inhales twice. >> I always do that. >> Just kidding. >> Always did. >> And a second later, the door is kicked. open. FBI agents, DC police. They arrest. Mayor Barry. To which he responds, and. this is now the viral quote, "Goddamn. [ __ ] set me up like this. Set me up. Ain't that a bitch?". >> [ __ ] up a view with this goddamn.

[ __ ] Set me up like this. Set me up. Ain't that a [ __ ] calm down. >> Those were his words when he and that's. why people love Mayor Barry, [laughter]. okay? Like people love Mayor Barry. And. then he looks at. >> But they did set him up. >> They literally said I mean I don't even. know how this is not entrament. It's. just straight up entrament at this. point. She asked so many times, "Are you. sure you don't want to smoke crack?". >> So why why the [ __ ] girlfriend sold. out like that? >> I think they were scaring her. I think.

they were scaring the [ __ ] out of her. Now, I do want to know Mayor Berry did a. lot of drugs. Like, it it is a truth. He's done a lot of drugs. All various. sorts of drugs. This was a huge scandal. back then because the press is racist. So, first of all, the setup itself is. disturbing. I think it's entrament. And. then instead of the articles afterwards. just saying, "Oh my gosh, our mayor was. caught doing drugs," which would have. been the headlines had a white mayor. been caught doing cocaine, there is the. persistent racism of a black man smoking.

crack, which by the way, I just want to. note that there is a sentencing ratio of. 100 to1 between crack and powder. cocaine, which technically the molecule. high is like the same thing, which means. if you have two sugar packets of crack, you get a mandatory 5-year prison. sentence. Meanwhile, you'll probably see. an influencer do more than that of. cocaine in a carbone or nou bathroom on. any given Saturday night. >> So, in order to get a mandatory 5-year. sentence for cocaine, you need to have. over a pound of cocaine. Perhaps the.

more cleanly, morally indisputable act. is that he tried to rekindle his. relationship with his ex in the hotel. room while he's married. And his wife. did support him through the entire. trial. So anyway, he goes to jail for 6. months in federal prison. And once he's. released, he runs for mayor again and he. wins. >> He's back. >> Yeah, he's back. >> He's back. >> Yeah. >> Wow. >> He has since um passed. But yeah, he was. back. This is like a crazy comeback for.

may bear. This is I mean a lot of. political consultants, they study Mayor. Barry. >> A new day. How are you? >> Strong men coming on. Strong men getting. stronger. Wow. So, people actually like. the fact that he was like, "The [ __ ]. sent me up.". >> Yeah. They love that he was very real. about it and they also love the fact. that he was dealing with addiction. because I think a lot of people could. relate to it. And again, it's like, wouldn't you rather your mayor be doing.

drugs than committing crimes against. women and children? Because nowadays, it. seems like every other mayor is at risk. of being found in the files or being. accused of essay. But even that would be. more easily navigated than a situation. that Mayor Clamad Richards senior finds. himself in. Monday morning, police are called to the. mayor's house. You know how this goes. You've heard it before. A woman in Ulip. found in the house dead. Strangulation.

marks. Boyfriend is the mayor's son. You. already know this story from May of 2018. when the sun had no intention of. setting. It's hot outside. The sun is. up. Jennifer Kirk is found dead at the. foot of the bed. But this is not that. Monday morning. This is March 9th, 2020. It's 8:32 a.m. The sun hasn't even. gotten up. It won't rise until 9:30 a.m. The temperature is 13° below zero. And. the police find another body, 30 years. old, Anua Pac, beaten, strangulation.

marks around her neck, [music] and her. name is Susanna Norton, but everybody. calls her Suzu. She shares the same. birthday as Jennifer Kirk, August 21st. And both of them are found dead in the. mayor's house. >> And in the beginning, who are those two. kids watching TV? >> It's the son's kids with Jennifer Kirk. Oh, that's Jennifer Kirk's kids. >> Mhm. >> How old are they? >> They're described to be juveniles.

>> Oh. >> The term OP book is not like a new term. It's been around for a while. It's a. research book for the OP, the opponent, the opposition in a political race. So, what you do when you're trying to run. for mayor or any elected office where. there is a lot of money funneled into. the campaigns, you hire two to three. specialists. They're called researchers. and you pay them anywhere between. $20,000 to $80,000 to do a full workup. of the inside and outside of your.

opposition. The researchers will go and. dig through archived old news reports, voting records, campaign finance. filings, social media posts, and book. researcher says, "I was hired because. they saw the opposition as a threat. My. job was to try and kill him." I mean, not literally, but you get what I'm. saying, right? Let's say you do find. some dirt on the opposition. What do. they do then? Well, they study it for. the debates. But there's been this. long-standing tradition, it seems, that. the researchers will share that material. with a journalist on the condition of no.

fingerprints. The journalist gets to. break a story with inside sources. The. campaign recycles the published story. into attack ads, debate talking points, and while the candidate acts like, [music] "I I found out through the news. just like everybody else." and they act. just as outraged as all the other. citizens. You can sometimes tell of by. the release timing if this is from an. opbook. In mayoral races, if one. candidate consistently has bad. information coming out on the day of. press releases or big gatherings and.

rallies, it could just be very well. released from the other party, which is. why it's important usually big. campaigns, if they only have the budget. to do one opbook, they do a selfop. >> Oh, >> researchers. Yeah. make an Obook on you, the candidate, because you know the. other part is going to do it. You need. good counterpoints. You need to make. sure that you're not taken off guard. I. mean, it takes a lot to run for mayor or. really any elected office beyond that. And that's why people like to play. dirty. Some wealthy candidates have also.

been known to hire every political. consultant in the market, not to use all. of their services at once, but to. prevent the opponents from accessing. them. It's kind of like when um wealthy. people, they get a divorce and they hire. all they put all the best family. attorneys in the city on a retainer so. that their partner can't use them. It's. kind of like that. It takes a lot to win. the race to be mayor. But it really. depends what you get out of it depending. on the mayor system. So some cities have. what's called a strong mayor [music]. system. New York, Chicago, Houston, mayor gets to appoint the heads of.

departments. They help draft and propose. budgets. They have a lot of executive. power. Then you have a weak mayor system. where you're pretty much just like. chairing the council meetings and. cutting ribbons. Like you don't really. have any independent executive. authority. You're just there. >> So there's more money in the strong one. Is that what you're mean? >> And it's very strange. So there are some. major cities where the mayor only gets. paid like $100,000. And then there will. be a city in Florida with a thousand. residents and the mayor is getting paid. a4 million.

>> Now the Northwest Arctic Bureau in. Alaska, that's a strong mayor system. The charter for it explicitly states the. executive power in the bureau is vested. in the mayor. The burough mayor as the. chief administrative officer is. responsible for all proper. administration of all bureau affairs. That gives Mayor Clement [music]. Richards a whole lot of power. A lot of. power. Enough power that he is going to. be in charge of a $60 million. construction contract. And there's going.

to be allegations that he's blackmailed. into this contract because there is a. video of him that exists [music] with an. underage girl. >> Is that a rumor? >> It's a rumor. [music]. Now, one month after Mayor Clement is. elected into office, [music]. a police officer knocks on his door. I. mean, technically, this is a very. uncomfortable situation for the police. officer to be in, but he's got a job to. do. The officer was called by Jennifer. Kirk, a 22-year-old. So this is when. she's 22. She passes away at 25. [music].

She reports that she was punched in the. face by someone who lives in this very. house, the mayor's son. So the report. reads from the perspective of the. officer. I asked Jennifer how Anthony. assaulted her and she stated that they. were having intercourse and he tried to. have anal intercourse. And when she told. him no, Jennifer then stated that. Anthony punched her in the back three. times causing pain and punched her in. the right eye twice causing pain, swelling, and a bloodshot eye. Jennifer. said Anthony also grabbed her right arm, leaving bruises just above her wrist. Obviously, the officer has to.

investigate. He walks up to the mayor's. front door and he knocks [music] and he. knocks again. And then Mayor Richards, Mayor Clement, he opens the door and he. smells drunk. Or at least according to. the report, quote, "Appeared extremely. intoxicated.". And then the mayor just aggressively. starts asking, "How can I help you? How. can I help you? How can I help you?". Doesn't give the officer a chance to. respond. He asks, "How can I help you?". three times and then slams the door. shut. It's like very odd behavior. This. is 1 month after he becomes mayor. What.

is the officer supposed to do? Knock. again? He doesn't. Instead, he just. moves on and so does everybody else. until 3 years later. Jennifer Kirk is. found dead inside that house and there. are clear markings of strangulation. She. was shot with a gun that is longer than. her entire arm and it's ruled to. self-exit. And the police and the mayor, they move on [music] to the next big. case. >> Wow. >> So instead of answering questions about. what happened in his own house, what his. son could have been involved in, the. mayor is out there on a podium involved.

[music] in another case answering. questions about Ashley Johnson bar. Ashley Johnson Bar is the girl in. purple. There's a lot that you have to. know about the whole area of Katsub. [music]. It's closer to Russia, like I said, than. Anchorage. It's a very isolated area. It's part of this like frying pan-shaped. peninsula in Alaska and it's actually. believed to be one of the oldest. continuously inhabited settlements in. the Americas. The land should belong to.

the Anuipat people and they do comprise. of roughly 75% of the population, but of. course it's stolen land, but a lot more. on this later. It's a very small. population where yes, the trope. everybody knows everybody. And it's. true. It's also true that September 6th, 2018, everybody knows that 10-year-old. Ashley Johnson Bar does not come home. And everybody knows Ashley Johnson Bar. People say she's the kid that just. seemed to be everywhere. Like, she could. teleport. She'll be picking blueberries. with her family and then showing up to.

five different church services and Bible. studies every single week. If there's a. body of water, she's probably trying to. change into a swimsuit and swim in it, even if it's a puddle. But that Thursday. evening, she goes to hang out at the. playground in the town center. And this. is not like other parts of the US where. kids are not out by themselves. She's. got a phone. She's at the town center. This is very normal for kids in this. area. >> This happened after um Jennifer's body. was found or. >> 3 months after Jennifer's body is found.

And this case, Ashley Johnson Bar's case. does make national news. And because may. the mayor is the mayor of [music] the. town that this is occurring in, he. almost becomes like this spokesperson. for this case. And yet nobody's asking. him about the fact that 3 months ago a. woman was found dead on his property and. his own son was covered in her own. blood. >> Yeah. How how how does that make sense? Why is nobody. >> exactly? >> Is it just like he has so much power. that this the it's been silenced from. the town? >> And again, this is a town where, like I.

said, it's that trope. Everybody knows. everybody. and Ashley goes missing. [music] And for eight days, all hell. breaks loose. Boats, helicopters, K-9. units are flown into the town to help. The Coast Guard gets involved. At any. given time, there were as many as 50. people searching for Ashley. September. 14th, 2018, a volunteer spots Ashley's. body in the tundra a few miles outside. of town. She had been essayed and. strangled to death at 10 [music] years. old. So, very quickly, a 41-year-old. man, Peter Vance Wilson, gets arrested.

I mean, the first sign that something. was wrong with Peter [music] was a. relative, a relative of Peter's was. going through, everyone in town is. looking for Ashley, and he's going. through Peter's coat. I don't know if he. was hanging the coat up or if it was. just like sprawled out on the couch, so. he's picking it up, and he notices. something heavy in the pocket. He. reaches in and it's Ashley's phone. >> Okay. Now, DNA testing also showed that. he was the one that kidnapped [music]. Ashley, essayed her, and then strangled. her with her own pants. He also. eventually confessed. But the.

infuriating part about all of this is. that all these people start coming. forward and they keep saying, "We knew. that Peter had problems and we tried to. tell everybody that Peter had problems.". Two female [music] relatives stated that. Peter had repeatedly throughout their. entire childhoods essayed them and he. never got in trouble. He started. essaying his relatives when he was 12. years old. Family members describe as. many as 40 different accounts of essay. from Peter and they tried to tell people. and nobody was listening to anybody.

Like the police isn't doing anything. >> Yeah, nobody's doing anything. They. just, you know, Ashley's father even. states, quote, "Some ladies and young. girls sure did try and go and speak up. Guess what happened? Nothing happened. People told them, "They never did this. to you. You're just making up stories.". But Ashley's case is monumental for a. number of reasons. I mean, I could do a. whole episode on this, but people. realized how much resources they could. actually mobilize. I mean, the way that. people came together to find Ashley, how. the entire state of Alaska seemed to. come together, that means the resources. are there. So if the case is there, this.

should be the reception for every. missing and murdered indigenous person. Not just like once in a while, but every. single time. Secondly, [music] there was. this sentiment in Alaska that a culture. of silence is not going to be tolerated. anymore. If someone had taken. accusations against Peter seriously, Ashley would still be alive. Many of. Peter's relatives would have been safer. Ashley's dad states, [music] "Our. daughter started something. No more. silence." I mean, there's just so much. more to the case, but [music] I mean, her parents are doing a lot of good for. women and children in Alaska. However,

one of the most vocal people during the. entirety of this case is this one man. who just kind of inserts himself into. all of this, Mayor Clement Richards. He's all over the news stations when the. searches for Ashley is taking place. And. it's infuriating because like everything. that Ashley's legacy symbolizes, the. mayor [music] is exploiting because if. anyone profits from a culture of silence. is clearly Mayor Clement Richard [music]. Senior. Because just 3 months before he. makes himself the spokesperson for. Ashley's [music] passing, Jennifer Kirk.

was found dead in his house and he's. just sweeping it under the rug. Some. people just really make it easy for the. police to do their job. Some cases just. like are very easy to solve. Or at least. that's what it feels like. You get a. checklist. Hey, these are the five. things you need to do. Find the. evidence. Check off the box. We're going. to trial. You're getting a conviction. Jennifer Kirk's case feels like that. It. feels so easy. Either the truth is it's. in the evidence that she did self-exit. like the police claimed that she did or. naturally there's something else to look.

into like the mayor's son Anthony. I. mean, how much more literal with the red. flags do we have to get? The police. department in their own report, quote, I. noted the rifle from the tip of the. barrel to the tip of the trigger as. being 27 and 118th in long. Jennifer's. arm, they note in the report, is shorter. than that. When the police first bring. in Anthony into the police station right. after finding Jennifer [music] Kirk's. body, they interview him. They don't. arrest him. They don't interrogate him. They just ask him questions and they.

listen to Anony's side of events, which. go like this. [music] I was watching TV. with the kids. I heard a pop and then I. saw Jennifer. You know, I had seen. Jennifer go into the bedroom. So, I. freaked out. I go into the bedroom. I. see her. I go to the neighbor's house. and I told them to call 911. He states. that Jennifer was still breathing when. he found her. And, you know, they've. been in this very long relationship. They have kids together who are in the. living room and she just self-exit. He. explains it's kind of a long story. And. they're like, "Well, tell us." So, she.

has this court date in her hometown, which is like a few towns over for DUI. She's supposed to turn herself in, but. she was scared to go. But I kept telling. her like, "You got to just get it over. with. You got to go and turn yourself. in." I kept telling her that she needed. to. And then she starts getting. emotional, crying, and like accusing. Anthony of not wanting to be with her. anymore. And Anthony tells the officer, "I told her not to cry in front of the. kids, and I told her to go lay down in. the room and calm down." He stays out in. the living room watching Spongebob with. the kids. And it's like an hour in when.

he hears that firecracker go off. So, he. rushes into the room. He finds that she. shot herself and he explains, [music]. "You know, this is very Jennifer. She's. really good at hiding her emotions until. she just It's like an explosion. Why did. you go to your neighbor's house to call. 911?". >> Mhm. >> Well, I couldn't find my phone, so I ran. next door. Which, side note, the mayor's. house is about a block away from the. police department. So, continuing on, he. gets back from telling the neighbor to. call the police. He goes back to. Jennifer's body and he holds her. That's. how it's described. It's described that.

he does not attempt CPR. He doesn't try. to stop the bleeding. He's just like. coating himself in her blood, holding. her. After what can only be described as. a very suspicious story, [music] the. police are like, "Well, you're free to. go. We're not arresting you." Right when. he leaves, the investigators get a call. from the Emy's office, and they advise. the police that not only does Jennifer's. body have a fatal bullet wound, but. there are signs of strangulation on her. neck, like handprints. She was strangled. before she died. And this police. department is not big at all. Which by.

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>> So this entire little tiny little police. department, they probably know everybody. and they know that a month after Clement. is elected into office, so a few years. ago, an officer got called out to the. mayor's house by Jennifer Kirk because. she reported that Anthony had assaulted. her and now she's dead a few years. later. All they have to do is a little. bit of due diligence. And if you're. already pulling up his profile, you can. also clearly see that September 2017, Jennifer called 911 again. She's. actually still at the mayor's house. She.

waits for the officers to arrive. She's. standing out in the driveway. She's. crying. And she tells the responding. officer, "Anthony just choked her. He. strangled her." And she's explaining. like she had gotten into town. She. wanted to see Anthony. So, right from. the airport, she goes to the mayor's. house. Both of them start drinking. And. Jennifer just wants to go back to her. hotel. And she even offers Anthony, "Do. you want to come back to my hotel with. me?" But Anthony does not want her to go. back to her hotel. In fact, he doesn't. even want her to go. And the fact that. she even offered for both of them to go.

is seemingly so offensive and such a. heinous thing for Jennifer to do that. Anthony starts verbally screaming at. her. And then he slams her down onto the. bedroom floor, sits on top of Jennifer, putting his entire body weight on top of. her. So, he's not only preventing her. from getting up, he's full-on. suffocating her. Jennifer states that. she just kept trying to struggle with. Anthony to get up and he only does. because she starts pinching him really, really hard. He gets up and I assume it. felt like they were both cooling down. because Jennifer sits on the bed and.

then she calmly tells him once more that. she wants to go back to the hotel. This. time he climbs up onto the bed, pushes. her down, and he grabs her neck with. both of his hands and starts strangling. her. Her vision starts narrowing. She. tells the police that she couldn't. breathe. She's terrified [music] of. passing out. And the report reads, "Jennifer eventually was able to get. away from Anthony. And during this. struggle to do so, she sustained a. visible laceration from the top right. side of her head. The officers go to. investigate. And guess what? Anthony is.

on probation. He's drunk. When they go. to talk to him, he's drunk. He's. violating state law by abusing violently. abusing Jennifer. So, he's arrested for. breaking probation. And with this, I. feel like the police have a pretty at. face value a suspicious story of death. They've got strangulation marks on the. deceased, a history of violence and. strangulation documented by various. criminal charges. And the police. officers, they were even trained. Top 10. red flags for domestic violence.

killings. And pretty much every single. one of them checks off. The red flags. consist of victim dies prematurely. Jennifer Kirk is 25. Self-exit or. accident scene. One partner wanted to. end the relationship. Prior history of. DV. Victim found dead in a home or a. residence. Victim found by current or. previous partner. Prior history of DV. includes strangulation or suffocation. Partner is the last to see victim alive. Partner has control of the crime scene.

and body is moved or seen or evidence is. altered in some way. Yeah. So, they. bring Anthony back in and they're like, "Hey, we found strangulation marks on. Jennifer Kirk's body." You didn't. mention any of that. >> Do you care to tell us what happened? And he explains that, "Well, he just. blocked out that part because it's just. like been a bad day." And he said it was. all in self-defense. >> He said that Jennifer started punching, slapping him on the side of his head. So, in order to stop her, he does what. any normal human does. He holds her back.

by her neck with both of his hands. It's. like the most reasonable defensive. stance. Of course, everybody's done it. before. And Anthony says, "While he's. doing this, she's still trying to slap. him." Now, when the police are like, "Well, how much pressure did you apply?". He doesn't recall. Did she fall. unconscious or not? He doesn't remember. He doesn't remember if he knocked her. unconscious or not. And all of this is. happening in the kitchen. This is what. he says, which is also kind of crazy. because he made this whole thing about.

like, I don't want her to cry in front. of the kids, but you're strangling her. in front of the kids. So, after she. might have been maybe maybe not knocked. out, Anthony can't remember. And when. she does become conscious, she goes to. the bedroom and that's when she dies by. herself. And with that, the police are given a. pretty easy pathway to get to the bottom. of what happened to Jennifer Kirk. And. the entire town gets wrapped up in this. hunt for the police department to find. the strangler. Authorities are asking.

for the public's help. Help us find out. who did this. Here are the clues that we. have. They're putting out like pictures. One investigator states, "The police. department suspects foul play and is. pursuing all investigative leads." And. they start putting up photos of the. suspect in question. Tipsters are. calling in. Volunteers are raising. thousands of dollars. I mean, this news. is all over the area. The strangler. needs to be brought in and there needs. to be justice. And they do catch him. They catch the strangler. They drag him.

to court, but it's not for Jennifer's. death. It's not for the death of. Jennifer Kirk. All of this police. investigative efforts is for a husky. So, around the same time that Jennifer. Kirk is found dead, the city fire. department's pet husky is also found. dead. They close Jennifer's case and. they do like a citywide hunt for the. strangler. >> For the husky. >> Yes. And like don't get me wrong, I. think that person needs to be punished. for sure, but nothing for Jennifer.

>> You think it's like a cover up? It's. like a. >> It seems like priorities. They don't. care for Jennifer Kirk. In fact, >> you think they don't care or they're. hiding something, right? Like they don't. care is like, "Okay, I'm not going to do. more investigation." Hiding is someone. is covering up for someone. I don't know. if they're that smart. >> Really? >> Yeah. Everyone in town thought it was. weird. >> Everyone in town thought. >> Jennifer Kirk's death is weird. Correct. >> They don't care to make statements and. make it make sense. They don't care to.

address it. It's just like, well, what. are you going to do about it? That's the. feeling that I get. >> It's so blatant. It doesn't It doesn't. feel like a cover up of like, oo, a. diversion. Don't pay attention to this. Pay attention to this. It doesn't feel. like that. So why is there no. investigation if. >> because the mayor controls the police. department? This is a really small town. >> and they don't care to investigate. >> So the even the police who made the. report rolled the gun is longer than the. arm. That means he also suspected. something some kind of foul play.

>> Yeah. But he doesn't care. >> or he was told not to look. >> and he doesn't care enough to go against. the status quo or alleged. Right. Mhm. >> That's our personal opinion of just the. limited information that we have, right? >> In terms of the husky and the search for. the strangler, I don't think it's some. sort of ooh diversion. Don't let the. community members. It doesn't seem like. that. It seems like the community knows. and the mayor is like what are you going. to do about it? >> Okay, that's the feeling. >> But Jennifer's case, yes, >> someone said do not continue. It's.

unclear if someone said do not continue. or the lead investigator got bumped on. the head with a coconut and decided to. close the case. You know, we don't know. what happened behind closed doors. Legally speaking, that would be bad to. say. >> Okay, >> you can come to your own personal. conclusions about that, but all we know. is that within one investigative day, the case is closed and it's deemed a. self-exit. Whether the mayor said, "Shut. it down." Whether the investigative lead. said, "Wow, I did my due diligence of.

[ __ ] 8 hours and I think that this is. a self-exit." It it's hard to say, right? >> What about Jennifer's families? >> They think something is weird. They just. want more investigations. They. absolutely do not believe that she would. self-exit. She was just on the phone. with her mom. They were preparing for. like future plan. There was nothing to. indicate that she is someone that would. want to self-exit. And then with all the. history of domestic violence from. Anthony, like it just to them it makes. zero sense. Now with the ProPublica.

piece, the expose, the police are going. to come back and say something about. Jennifer's death. And I'm going to get. into it and it's so infuriating. But it. just feels [music] like to some people. because of the lack of investigation. into Jennifer Kirk's death, another. person is going to end up [music] dead. because 2 years after Jennifer Kirk. dies, Suzu Norton dies and the mayor's. son is going to be in the court once. more answering questions about Suzu's. death. But this time, it's not Anthony, it's a different mayor's son, Amos. Okay. So, Mayor Clement Richard Senior.

has three sons and all three of them. have been charged with assaulting women. on the mayor's property. >> They all live together. >> Yes. And it's not just one that's. violently abusive. All three of them. There are at least 31 criminal cases. involving the three sons and a total of. six different victims. All three sons. have been charged with a combined 16. counts of domestic violence. None of. these charges resulted in felony. domestic violence convictions. And when. you start putting these timelines.

together, it's actually so disgusting. You want to lock the whole family up in. a basement cell and feed them copious. amounts of Advil on an empty stomach. It's just heinous. Okay. A few months. after Jennifer Kirk is found dead, a. woman walks into the police station with. a right eye that is black and blue. It's. swollen shut. She can't even open her. eye. >> Mhm. >> She's crying. And she reports that her. boyfriend, Amos, the eldest of the. mayor's three sons, has been abusing. her. This is after This is a few months. after Jennifer Kirk is found dead on the. mayor's property. So, the police are.

like, "Well, we just found a dead woman. on the mayor's property." And now. another woman is walking in. She's got. clear evidence of abuse. And she's. saying that a different mayor's son, you. know, the same mayor but a different son. is beating her. And she's got. strangulation marks on her neck just. like Jennifer Nort or Jennifer Kirk had. This is Suzu Norton who will soon. [music] be killed. She says that her. boyfriend Amos, he's a bit of a drinker. She wanted him to stop drinking, so she. poured out his beer. He becomes so. enraged, he grabs her by the hair, drags.

her around the entire house, kicks her. repeatedly in the head, stomach, face, back. Her forearms are swollen from. trying to protect her head and face. while he's kicking her, and she's 6. months pregnant with his child. The. incident report states officer was. unable to locate the defendant. That's. pretty much it. Within 2 years, Susu. Norton, just like Jennifer Kirk, will be. found dead. They don't do anything. I. mean, what do you expect from the sons.

whose own father, Mayor Clement Richard, Senior, has a felony domestic violence. charge. This. >> is he still out? Is he still the mayor? Is he still out and about? What's going. on? >> He tried to run for reelection. He did. not get reelected in 2018. And then in. 2022, Suzu Norton's body is found in the. mayor's house and he's still out there. Kyle from ProPublica tried to go talk to. him and he's like, "No comment. He won't. make any comments. Nothing. >> This is so bizarre. What is going on?". >> Now, this happens when the mom Annette.

So, this is Clement Richards. This is. like the ex first lady of the town, I. guess, right? But Annette is pregnant. with their third son, Anthony. So, they. have three sons. Anthony is, you know, Jennifer Kirk's ex-boyfriend. She's pregnant and by this point they. already have two sons. She's 8 months. pregnant and Clement Richards in a fit. of anger beats her, kicks her in the. stomach repeatedly until she starts. profusely bleeding from her private. areas. The police are called to the. house. Clement and his wife Annette are.

just sitting in the living room. She's. bleeding. And the officer concludes that. Clement had been dragging Annette around. by her hair, kicked her in the stomach. with boots on, and then punched her in. several other parts of her body. The. very next day, Anthony is born. Clement. Senior pleads no contest to felony. domestic violence assault and goes to. jail for 6 months. Here's the. mind-boggling part. You remember the. whole op book that political candidates. get on their opposition? Former mayor.

Clement Richards has a domestic violence. charge, this charge that is publicly. available to see. It's a matter of. public record before he's elected to. become mayor. Meaning when he runs for. mayor, none of his opponents, nobody in. the area, nobody in the media mentions. or brings up the fact that he nearly. killed his wife and child. Nobody. >> because they don't do their homework. >> Either they don't do their homework or. it's like what a lot of people are. saying, enough is enough. This culture. of silence is over with.

>> I see. >> He becomes vice mayor, mayor. He's on. the city council. He held political. office from 1999 to 2018. I feel like. that's longer than some of you guys have. been alive. >> Wow. >> With this charge. And his wife Annette, she starts working for the Alaskan state. troopers, working with prosecutors in. the local area that later become judges. These judges then later oversee her. son's domestic violence cases. Which, side note, when Clement Richards was.

mayor, there was this huge scandal. So, aside from Jennifer Kirk dying inside of. his house while he holds public office, there's this huge construction bid, a. construction project, $60 million. He's. the mayor in a mayor strong system. And. he gets to have like he's aggressively. pushing for this no bid contract to be. awarded to a local company called Remote. Solutions. They're going to get a $60. million contract to construct the. school, the highway. Like, this is what. they need. The school district still has.

to vote on it. So does the bureau. assembly, but he's like going to each. person and he's like, "You got to vote. yes." It's got to go to Remote. Solutions. Mayor Clement is using all of. his power to swing the votes in his. favor. They've got three special bureau. assembly meetings. These were a huge. scandal, too. So, one of them is like. randomly held in Seattle, so they have. to fly everybody out to Seattle and they. spend like over $100,000 of taxpayer. money. It's like, why do you have to. have it in Seattle? It just seemed like. a vacation. But then out of nowhere, allegedly, Clement Richards is like, "Wait, wait, never mind. Never mind. I. take it all back. I don't want Remote.

Solutions to be the bid for this. contract." Out of nowhere, all of this. feels kind of par for the course. Like, some political corruption going to. Seattle, but it doesn't feel that bad, right? But like, why did he suddenly. change his mind? Well, Clement Richards. fires his chief of staff for the burrow, Eugene. And Eugene files a [music]. complaint to the police department and. he states that he was fired because he. knew information that the mayor does not. want to get out. Apparently, this is. what he alleges. The mayor was drunk.

driving a burrow vehicle. This is like a. city car with a young underage girl in. the car. He almost hits another car on. the road. And that other driver that. almost got hit, his name is Chris. He. starts allegedly recording this incident. on his phone that depicts the mayor. driving drunk in a burrow vehicle with a. girl that appears to be underage. Chris. then goes and shows it to a bunch of. people who then notifies Eugene, the. chief of staff. So Eugene is like, "Oh. my god, there's this video." He says, "I.

told our mayor that he needs to go talk. to Chris about the situation. Clement. notified me that Chris agreed to delete. the video and told Clement not to do it. again." No, he notices Eugene is like. noticing all these bureau meetings and. Clement is like, "Oh, we got to do. remote solutions. We got to do remote. solutions. This is the bid for the. construction work, right?". >> And then suddenly he's like, "No, it's. not. We're not doing remote solutions. anymore.". >> Okay. >> And so Eugene is like, "What the hell?". And then Clement is like visibly upset. And so Eugene is like, "What's wrong? Why are you upset?" Eugene says, this is.

his claim, that Clement was told that. Chris did not delete the video. And now. the other parties who want this contract. are telling Clement, "Drop, get rid of. the Baker Brothers. The Baker Brothers. own Remote Solutions.". >> Who's Baker Brothers? >> They own Remote Solutions. Okay. >> Get rid of the Baker Brothers or this. video goes out. So all of a sudden he. said, "I don't want Remote Solutions. anymore.". >> So basically he has like a little. underground deal with Baker's brother. That's a big allegation, but you know, I.

mean, he really is trying to get Baker's. brother this deal for whatever. And then. someone, a competitor got their hands on. Chris's video. Now they're kind of. telling him to we want the contract. >> Kill the contract. Kill the deal cuz we. want it. >> Now there's scandal about. >> So why is Eugene getting fired for that. then? >> So then Eugene is like, "That's messed. up." He's like telling Clement Richards, "No, like that's messed up. You got to. do something about like I you cannot let. this affect how you mayor this town.

Then he gets fired. So then he's like, "Okay, well I'm going to file a report. because you wrongfully terminated me for. like having a morally upstanding take.". >> Okay. >> So, but I will say the other side of it, I went into too many rabbit holes. Okay. But the other side of it, this is an. allegation, but the other company, they. one of them shares a child with someone. on the school board. So everybody's just. trying to get the company that they get. a kickback from. And I don't know if. kickback should be used in like the very.

strict definition of contractually you. get this much, but just you get some. sort of indirect benefits. The driver. was contacted by journalists and they. say that there is no video, there's no. involvement, but the whole thing was. just a massive scandal, just huge. It. was an even bigger scandal than what's. going on inside that house. The mayor's. three sons, Amos, he has multiple. charges against him. He's the eldest for. victimizing and abusing his girlfriend. and the mother of his children, Suzu.

Norton, while she's pregnant. He's. violently assaulting her, just like his. dad violently assaulted his mom while. she was pregnant. [music]. Suzu Norton's death is being. investigated right now, and I would say. Amos would be in most people's opinion. suspect number one. And then you have. the second son, Clement [music] Jr., one. complaint filed against Clement Jr. reads that a redacted victim called 911. to report that Clement Jr., the mayor's. second son, was assaulting her inside. the mayor's house. This is Clement Jr.'s. girlfriend, and she says that she was.

trying to leave the house. Clement Jr. gets up in her face and she starts. pushing her as she's walking out of the. bedroom. Quote, "The victim stated that. when she turned around to push the. defendant away from her, he began to. punch her in the face." The victim said. that she attempted to get away from the. defendant, but was unable to. He just. keeps punching her until a third party, one of his friends that happens to be. there, rips him off of her. The officers. contact the defendant, Clement Jr., and. they write that the defendant was. extremely uncooperative and denied. anything happened. He had a strong odor. of alcohol on his breath as [music] well.

as on his person, red watery eyes, and. poor balance. Now, Clement Jr. pleads. guilty to harassment, and receives a. suspended [music] sentence, and his. conviction is white from public record. And then you have Anthony, the youngest. son, Jennifer Kirk's abuser. He's got a. lot of cases. Many of them are the ones. that we've covered with Jennifer Kirk. Her reports before her death. He also. has another case against him, an essay. case where the victim states to the. judge that she's terrified of running. into Anthony because it's a small town, which by the way, Superior Court Judge.

Paul Roman decides [music] that he's. going to give Anthony a special chance. And by special, I just mean very. uncommon. So he gives Anthony a very low. bail. This bail goes from being $7,500. to $2,500. And he explains [music] his decision by. saying that he worked with Anony's. mother and knew his father held elected. office. What the [ __ ] does that mean? The judge states, "I know Mrs. Richards. for when she used to work with the. troopers." Um, she has a lot of. experience with these types of cases and. know what these are like. Mr. Richards.

has been part of city council. Um, you. know, if you're not now, I I don't know. if you are now. So, he's been part of. the local council. So, they're going to. be fine third parties, I think. >> Um, I know Miss Richards from when she. used to work for the troopers. Um, she. has a lot of experience with these types. of cases and knows what these are like. Um, Mr. Richards, um, has been part of, uh, city council. If you're not now, I. don't know if you are now. So, he's, you. know, been a part of the local community. and they're going to be fine third. parties. I think.

>> they're going to be fine third parties. >> Yes. Okay. This is the system in which. all of these little [clears throat] okay. they violently assault a woman. They get. charged with felony assault and then the. judge gives them a low bail and the. judge is like find third parties. Meaning I think your mom and dad are. going to make sure that you don't try to. run away that you don't do anything. crazy while you're out on bail before. the trial. And guess what? a trial never. [ __ ] happens because the prosecutors. then come in and they're like, "Hey, plead guilty and instead of a felony.

charge, we'll give you a misdemeanor for. something like harassment. instead of violently kicking someone in. the stomach while they're pregnant.". >> They really run to town, huh? >> Yeah. The judge even says, "To say that. you dodged a bullet is an understatement. on this one.". >> Well, um, to say that you dodged a. bullet is probably an understatement on. this one. Um, these are pretty serious. charges. Um, and I understand the. evidentiary issues that that were. presented, but had those not been there. and it had been less complicated, um,

you know, you were facing some really. serious charges that involve a lot of. jail time. You understand that, of. course. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> It just seems like a who's dodging a. bullet and why how are they dodging a. bullet through you? Judge Paul Roman. declined to comment and a court. spokesperson has stated, "Judicial. officers cannot and do not comment on. their cases in order to maintain the. integrity of their decisions and to. ensure that for fairness reasons their. thinking is reflected solely in the. official court record without extraneous. commentary." Even though the code of.

conduct for judges state that quote. shall not allow family, social, political, or other relationships to. influ influence the judge's judicial. conduct or judgment. So the sheer fact. that he's like, "Why know your parents?". Mhm. Yeah. >> Even after the death of Jennifer Kirk, July 17th, 2020, so this is actually. after Jennifer Kirk's death and Suzu. Norton's death. There's another filing. after two women are found dead in the. house. >> Yeah. >> Okay. There a woman reports her.

boyfriend scratched her face and kicked. her. Her boyfriend being Anthony. Richards. >> What is going on in this house? >> Yeah. She said that Anthony threw her. onto the ground, kicked her in, punched. her in the face, started kicking her in. the ribs, her legs, her back, her butt, causing pain. The officers actually. located a third party witness who was. like, "Oh yeah, I saw that happen." And. when they finally find Anthony, in the. report, it states that he starts cussing. out the officers that he's not going to. jail. And quote, "While declaring to. Anthony that he was under arrest,

Anthony attempted to walk into the. residence. Officer Aaron and I got a. hold of him while I was trying to place. handcuffs on Anthony. He grabbed my. handcuff by the loop and would not let. go, prompting me to pull my laser and. demand that he let the handcuff go. Anthony Richards was arrested and. transported to KRJ where he remained. uncooperative and refused to participate. in a preliminary breath test. >> Okay. And. >> but he's out now. >> So these cops, they first get involved. They're like, "That's sus. I'm going to. arrest you. You're going to get. punished.". >> Mhm. >> And then they turn around. There's. nothing going on here. >> Yeah. Or they arrest them and then the.

judge is like, "You guys are good, fine. people. I see no reason to be suspicious. of you. You can be out on bail until the. trial. And then prosecutors, remember. Annette used to [clears throat] work. with the prosecutors. Not saying that. there's a connection, but I'm just. saying that's an odd thing, right? They'll come in and they'll say, "Hey, plead guilty. I'll give you a. misdemeanor." They do tiny bits of jail. time here and there, but barely any. And. these judges are actually insane. There's one judge that lowered his bail. to $100. $100 while he's out on. probation. $100. And he there's an audio.

of this where he's talking to Anthony. and he's explaining why strangulation is. such a bad thing aside from the [ __ ]. obvious. And he says. >> in talking about the gravity of the. situation, what jumps out at me in both. of these cases is there was an. allegation of of strangulation in both. cases. And that's that's the reason this. was charged as a felony case. And I hope. you do understand that um you're serving. a large amount of jail time, but um you.

could you are um getting away from a. felony conviction by taking this. agreement and that's a big benefit to. you. But what I was getting at is. strangulation is a very serious thing. [music] and it's recognized that way by. the legislature. That's why these types. of cases can be charged as felonies. Um, you know, one thing I'd point out to. you, the natural result of a punch or a. kick or kind of your typical misdemeanor.

assault is a bruise or an injury, that. sort of thing. The result of. strangulation, if if it's not stopped, if a person can't breathe, is death. And. that's a serious thing. Um, you know, that wasn't the result in either of. these cases, fortunately. But someone. who's who's not trained um in the. medical profession, that sort of thing, it's it's a dangerous thing cuz someone. like you or I,

you don't know when to let up and when. it might be too late. So keep that in. mind. >> It's like you're talking to a 5-year-old. of not to play fight. >> But also, and one comment reads, "Keep. that in mind." The judge is literally. saying, "Next time you beat a woman, keep in mind strangulation is a bigger. charge because you might accidentally. kill them." Like, what do you mean keep. in mind? And like, what do you mean a. medical professional? We're not medical. professionals, so we can't strangle. women. Which, side note, I don't know if. you want to take a random comment online. as truth or a fraction of the truth or.

like a flatout lie or a hallucination. It's up to you. But it reads, "I worked. a summer job in that town in 2008. One. of my 16-year-old co-workers was. viciously jumped by one of the Richard's. brothers while I was there. And another. ex-coorker got jumped right after I. left. I tried to get the kid to go to. the police, but he said their family is. too powerful. Also, one of the police. officers in that police department was. basicallying every girl in the area that. was between 18 to 20 years old. And I'm. not exaggerating. He was openly. flaunting his relationship with these. teens he groomed in front of everyone.

And nobody did a thing about it. I was. just telling my partner how insane this. place was like a week ago. This town is. out of control. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Whoa. It. >> There's another nearby town, I believe. in the same bureau where ProPublica did. a huge expose on them as well. But every. single police officer in that small. police department, not this one, but. it's a town nearby. They all have. domestic violence charges. And actually, Alaska is one of the most dangerous.

states in the United States for a woman. Women are two and a half times more. likely than the national average to be. killed by a man in the state of Alaska. More than four in five indigenous women. specifically have experienced violence. in their lifetime. And indigenous women. are killed at a rate 10 times the. national average. On any given day in. the United States, thousands of. indigenous women and girls are listed as. missing in federal databases. And no. matter how large that number is, it's. still not comprehensive. [music].

There is not even like a way to identify. that someone is indigenous when they go. missing. [music] It's always like white, Hispanic, Asian, black. There's no way. There's actually no comprehensive. federal database that tracks how many. indigenous women are missing. There's no. reliable count of how many have been. murdered. It said that when an. indigenous woman disappears, she. disappears three [music] times in life, in the media, and then in the data. So, we're working on a full episode on a few. other cases. is I mean a lot of these.

take a lot of time because it's hard. even to get like the foyer [music]. requests and it it's just really. difficult but it all just comes down to. this which don't even get me started on. the boarding schools [music] that they. would systematically just eradicate. indigenous culture while. saying indigenous women saying that. their culture is lesser than other. cultures meanwhile you're wording them. every elected official gets up on every. single [ __ ] podium, shoves their face.

inside of a mic, and they pledge, they. promise everyone that there's going to. be change. And the only way that they're. going to bring about change is the. minute that their ass touches the seat. of power. So, you must vote for them. specifically. It's very sympathetic. words that are spoken with all of these. politicians and then the execution is. completely hollow. It's empty. There's. nothing of substance. Do they actually. do something? After the ProPublica. expose on this case, in an open letter, the police chief states that state. investigators reviewed the case of.

Jennifer's death in 2018 and they found. no new leads. The letter reads to the. Katsubi community. Since the news. articles about several deaths were. published by the Anchorage Daily News, past traumas and pains have been. reopened in our community. These. difficulties are not lost on me or your. police department. The tragedy around. the death of Jennifer Kirk in 2018 is. one of many that weighs on our hearts. We need to advise the public that. reading this letter may be disturbing. for community members. Many in our. community have raised questions or. concerns about Jennifer's untimely.

death. I wanted you to hear from me. directly on how the investigator. assigned to the case took care to. investigate Jennifer's passing and what. the process looked like so you have as. much information as possible to make. informed decisions about what you read, see, or hear. They allege in this letter. [music] that the investigator spent at. least 16 days interviewing witnesses, collecting evidence, and following up. leads before closing the case. Jennifer's own sister has come out to. state that the police failed to properly. communicate with the family during the. initial investigation. They failed to.

interview certain witnesses. They even. declined to provide the family police. audio and video recordings from this. closed investigation. Previously, Jennifer's parents were outspoken about. stating that she would never self-exit. and that the police never even really. spoke to her about anything. Also, it it. was closed within one investigation day. I don't know where he's coming up with. 16 days all of a sudden. And also, if. that's the case, you should prosecute. Anthony for strangulation, even if you. don't prosecute him for potentially. being involved in something more.

sinister. But he admitted to strangling. her before she died. >> Mhm. They continued, "The medical. examiner has the ultimate authority in. determining the case of death. After a. thorough review of the evidence and. post-mortem autopsy, the medical. examiner determined that there was no. evidence that Jennifer had in any way. been strangled prior to her death that. day. There was also no evidence that. anyone other than Jennifer fired the gun. that ended her life. The police wrote in. their own report that her arm is shorter. than the gun. So suddenly it's no longer.

shorter than the gun and it's actually. physically feasible that she could have. pulled the trigger. But they don't. provide any context because I'm sure you. could maggyver the trigger in a way. where if you pull something else maybe. the trigger is pulled. But they're. they're not saying that's what happened. They're just saying no. I'm telling you. this so you're going to believe it. And. they counter it with this. Some have. expressed concern whether it would have. been physically possible for Jennifer to. fire the rifle. Measurements taken of. both Jennifer's body and the firearm. show that it was how literally how.

>> Yeah, it's just like physics. >> I know this is hard to hear. Something I. do want to note to you. We are aware of. the domestic violence history in this. case and in others. I want to be clear. I strongly and vehemently condemn that. No one should ever think that it is okay. to abuse another and cause harm. Those. who do harm should face consequences. Okay, then persecute him for. strangulation. While it is not my. decision nor my departments on. prosecuting or sentencing those. incidents, I do want you to know that I.

denounce domestic violence in the. strongest possible terms. And while many. of you have asked about Jennifer, others. have also inquired about Susanna Norton, her ongoing homicide investigation. Susanna is not forgotten. We know that. many find similarities in the location, family involved, and other circumstances. surrounding her murder. I understand. that. As your chief, I want you to know. that we have reached out to the Alaska. Bureau of Investigations and asked them. in 2021 to review the investigation, which side note, they kind of refuted.

this. They were like, "We were not. requested in 2021 to look into Susanna. Norton's death.". >> Okay. >> So, they're like, "Actually, we were. asked like later, not in 2021." So, this. police chief, I don't know where he's. getting his numbers. Maybe I'm getting. the numbers wrong, but like it just is. not adding up at all in any sense of the. word. I'm sure the Alaska Bureau of. Investigations Missing and Missing and. Murdered Indigenous People's Unit will. provide updates to us and to the. community as they move forward. This. doesn't make sense. The same reporter. from ProPublica actually reached out to. the police chief last year and asked a.

few series of questions. On what day did. investigator Mlette [music] close. Jennifer Kirk's death investigation? May. 24th, 2018 is the police chief's word. That's one day. One day, but now he's. saying it's 16 days. The death. investigation record suggests that the. case was closed before investigator. Malad received the final autopsy report. for Jennifer Kirk. Is that correct? And. he says correct. But then in this open. letter now he's saying well this is up. to the me. We don't decide anything. So.

why is he switching up? Jennifer's. sister even states this open letter. definitely took us by surprise again and. it was almost like adding insult to. injury. Okay. What about the. investigation into Suzu Norton's death? Alaskan state troopers have taken over. the investigation in 2022. That's 2. years after she was found dead. [music]. They told Suzu's family that they're. going to send investigators into the. town. And that never happened. And. Suzu's family would know because they. live three houses down from the mayor. They never came into town. They never.

investigated. They're not talking to. anyone. They just keep saying that. they're investigating. And they also. release this video on YouTube where. they're like, "Let us know if you know. anything.". >> What's the video? It's a state trooper. standing there being like, "We are. taking this very seriously. We are. investigating the death of Suzu Norton. Please let us know if you've known. anything, seen anything." And it's like, "Isn't that your job?". >> Today marks the anniversary of Suzu. Norton's murder. She was killed March 9,

2020, 5 years ago today. MMIP. investigators know that there are people. in Katsub or connected to Katsub that. have information. relating to this case leading up to the. events and following the events. We're. asking for the public's help. If you. have any information at all that could. be relevant in this case, we ask that. you reach out to Alaska State Troopers. Your information could bring closure and. healing to Suzu's family, her friends, and the community of Katsu. As for.

Suzu's family, they weren't even told. that she was strangled to death, and. they live three houses down from the. mayor. It just feels like there are. certain cases where it's kind of like. the whole sympathy and words execution. is hollow. Everyone is like, "Okay, we're going to take missing and murdered. indigenous people so seriously now. So, what we're going to do is we're going to. create a subunit inside of our police. department where the Alaskan State. Troopers are going to have their own. dedicated unit into investigating.

missing and murdered indigenous people. and we're going to name it MMIP. And then we're going to investigate all. these cases. And they come out online. and they're like, "Yeah, we're. investigating." And then ProPublica goes. to the family and they're like, "Are. they investigating?" No. It just seems. like they're not doing anything. So, what's like the latest update on the the. previous mayor and and the family? Now, >> they won't give any comments. They all. still reside in that house and Suzu. Norton's death is so-called being.

investigated. Okay, here's another. thing, right? So, while I do think that. the rules around a foyer request, so in. the United States, if you it's the. Freedom of Information Act. If you want. information about a particular case, especially like a criminal case, you as. a citizen, each state is different. Some. states are really annoying. Some states. you have to like be a resident of that. state. Anyway, you submit a request and. you can get redacted case files. They're. not going to give you everything. They're just going to give you what is. mandated by law to give you. And with.

Jennifer Kirk's case, there wasn't a. lot, but you can foyer request it. because it's a closed case because she. was deemed to have self-exited. Now, here's the thing with Susanna Norton. They keep saying it's an ongoing. investigation, which means you cannot. get a foyer request on an ongoing. investigation because most of the time. it's probably not good. They're. investigating right now. You should not. impede the police on doing their work. But if they're not doing the work, it. almost feels like they're doing this so. that nobody can get information, nobody.

can point out things that are weird or. ask questions and then everybody forgets. about it and then they move on. >> Yeah. Yeah. So they keep they requested. our foyer request for Suzu Norton's. death and they're saying request. >> Yeah, the request they denied it. Oh, >> they denied. >> Yeah, they denied it and they said it's. because it's an open ongoing. investigation, right? But then I'm. looking online and the family is coming. out to journalists and saying what are. they investigating? They told us they. were going to come into town and they. haven't come into town. So it's just. open. It's not an investigation. Mhm.

>> Also, I'm just saying it's a really. small police department and the fact. that they took so long to get back to us. because usually police departments if. they want to reject you for a foyer. request, it's like they already have a. template. They're like for ABC, bye. You're not getting it. Okay. And then. you can try to fight it cuz sometimes. you're like, I don't think that's. legally right. You can try to kind of. maneuver around it, but no, they took so. long and it didn't make any sense. One. comment about this case reads, "When.

it's rich billionaires who jettison. themselves to the bottom of the ocean, we've got enough resources and money to. send the Coast Guard to the bottom of. the sea to retrieve their bodies and the. debris. When it's two indigenous women, no one cares. Suddenly, there's no more. money, no more resources, no bother, no. care. This is documented discrimination. in broad daylight." Other people are. commenting, "How is this coordinated. silence, okay? Like, who's holding these. organizations accountable? Why are they. allowed to just not answer? Like, why is. the former mayor allowed to just not. respond to comments?

>> Yeah. >> And so that is where we are right now. with this case. There's going to be a. lot more. We're working on multiple. different episodes, but if you live in. Alaska, if you live anywhere near this. town, call their police department. Send. in tips. Send in requests to the state. troopers. interact with anything that. you see online about Jennifer Kirk and. Susanna Norton. I think police typically. don't care until everybody cares and. then they still don't care. They just. don't want to be seen as not doing their.

job. What are your thoughts? Let me know. in the comments and I will see you in. the next one. Be safe.