A former Anchorage man has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenager outside an East Anchorage restaurant in 1995.
Alaska prosecutors have charged a cold case sex crime based on the results of an effort to reexamine long-untested DNA evidence.
Ronald Wade Fischer, 51, was indicted by an Anchorage grand jury last week on a single charge of sexual assault in the first degree, the Alaska Department of Law said in a statement Thursday. An indictment in the cases gives few details about the alleged crime. The victim, a 17-year-old girl, was walking on a sidewalk near the former Royal Fork Buffet restaurant on Northway Drive before the alleged assault, which happened in February 1995, said Department of Law spokeswoman Patty Sullivan.Police investigated at the time and took DNA evidence from the victim, but failed to identify a suspect, the department said. The case went cold for decades.
The statewide cold case prosecutor has charged four people based on evidence from the project testing kits from local police department agencies, Sullivan said.Public records show that Fischer lived in Anchorage in the 1990s but later moved Outside.Michelle Theriault Boots is a longtime reporter for the Anchorage Daily News. She focuses on in-depth stories about the intersection of public policy and Alaskans' lives.
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