Unsolved cases in Nome attract FBI

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For visiting villagers, a trip to town was their last

By TOM KIZZIA and TATABOLINE BRANT
Anchorage Daily News

FBI serial homicide experts have been called in to investigate a chain of disappearances and suspicious deaths of Native villagers visiting Nome.

The cases date back to the 1960s, with 10 since 1990. The victims were mostly Native men who had traveled to the Seward Peninsula's commercial hub from smaller villages of the Bering Strait region.

A prominent Native organization in Nome last week released a list of 20 such suspicious cases, along with offers of a reward, in an effort to get help from the public.

Whispers that danger awaits travelers on the streets of Nome have circulated in the region's Inupiat and Siberian Yupik villages for years. The accounts of missing cousins and in-laws have been colored by allegations of police indifference and even hostility toward visiting Natives, especially those who pass through the bars on Front Street.
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