FAIRBANKS, ALASKA 1993: Sophie Sergie was a first generation college student from a small village in rural Alaska who set her eyes on building a better future for herself and her family. In April of 1993, someone cut that future short.
This case played out on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks over 4000 miles from New England and nearly three decades in the past, but the long arm of justice knows no limits of distance or time. DNA evidence reached across the farthest corners of the United States to implicate the alleged killer of Sophie Sergie. He was working as a nurse in Auburn, Maine.
The 2019 arrest of Steven Downs seemed like the first sign of real closure for Sophie’s family, but as the trial proceedings play out in Alaska Superior Court right now in January of 2022, what seemed like a clear answer on the surface gets more difficult to pin down each day.
This is Part I of Sophie Sergie's story.
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Dark Downeast is an audiochuck and Kylie Media production hosted by Kylie Low.
UPDATE: The Murder of Sophie Sergie (Alaska)
The Murder of Lila Drew (Maine)
The Disappearance of Jesus De La Cruz (Massachusetts)
The Disappearance of Kitty Wardwell (Maine)
The Suspicious Death of Shawn O'Brien (Rhode Island)
The Murder of Sophie Sergie Part 2 (Alaska)
The Murder of Douglas J. Parent (Maine)
The Murder of Sean Conway (Maine)
The Murder of Jason Bass & Disappearance of Adam Emery (Rhode Island)
The Murder of Katherine Murphy (Maine)
The Murder of Michael T. Connolly (Maine)
The Suspicious Death of Alexie Adams (Maine)
The Murder of Jack Bevins, Part 2 (Maine)
The Murder of Jack Bevins Part 1 (Maine)
The Murder of Thomas Napier (Maine)
The Suspicious Death of William Costello (Massachusetts)
The Ghost Town Beneath Flagstaff Lake (Maine)
The Suspicious Death of Sally Maynard Moran (Maine)
The Suspicious Death of Wanda Mitchell (Maine)
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