Jessica Baggen spent her 17th birthday with a friend and sister. She walked home in the wee morning hours the day after but was never seen alive again. Pretty quickly, someone came into the police station saying he had blacked out and thinks he may have killed Jessica... but something just didn't add up.

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Jessica Baggen death: DNA solves 1996 cold case murder (nypost.com)

23 years ago, Alaska tried the wrong man for the murder of a Sitka teenager. Now police say they’ve found the real killer. Why wasn’t he a suspect all along? (ktoo.org)

24 years after her death on a Sitka bike path, genetic evidence leads to Jessica Baggen’s killer - Alaska Public Media

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231: Case Closed: Jessica Baggen