![]() 'While nothing will ease the pain or bring Jessica back, I am humbled and proud of the work that many law enforcement professionals did over the years to bring closure to her family and friends. Half an hour after cops left his home, Branch shot himself in the head.Īlaska police secured a warrant to take a DNA sample during the autopsy and Branch was this week confirmed to be Baggen's killer. ![]() Her body was found two days laterĪ man who shoot himself dead after refusing to provide a DNA sample to cops investigating a 24-year-old cold-case murder has been confirmed as the killer, police announced Tuesday.Īlaska State Troopers and the Sitka Police Department used public genealogy databases to track down the suspect in the 1996 rape and strangulation murder of 17-year-old Jessica Baggen.Ĭops traveled to Arkansas on August 3 to ask the suspect identified, Steve Branch, 66, to give a voluntary DNA sample as part of the investigation but he refused. Jessica Baggen, 17, went missing from her quiet Alaskan town, Sitka, on May 4, 1996. ![]()
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