Anchorage John Doe was a man that serial killer Joshua Wade confessed to killing in September 2000 in June 2014. His remains have not been located or linked to an existing unidentified person case.
Case[]
In 2014, Wade confessed to killing three men in Anchorage, Alaska, to state and federal authorities in exchange for a prison transfer. The first two murders are believed to be those of John Michael Martin in 1994 and Henry Ontowasruk in 1999. The third murder was of an unidentified man that he killed on the same night he killed a woman named Della Brown.
In September 2000, Wade and some of his friends found Della Brown unconscious in the middle of a road in the Spenard neighborhood of Anchorage. They took her to an abandoned shed and left her there. Later that night, Wade returned and robbed, raped, and beat her to death with a boulder. He would show his friends and several others her body over the next few days, before her body was discovered, and brag about what he had done.
On the night of Brown's murder, presumably after the murder, Wade was accompanied to the shed by the unidentified man. For unclear reasons, Wade knocked the unknown man out, placed him in the trunk of his car, and went to a bar. After returning to his car, he heard the man banging on the trunk for help and decided to drive outside of Anchorage to a secluded area in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. There, Wade forced the man out of the car, stomped on his head, stripped him naked, and shot him twice in the head with a shotgun, execution-style.
In 2009, Wade pleaded guilty to the 2007 carjacking and murder of Mindy Schloss and admitted to killing Brown in his plea despite his 2003 acquittal in her murder trial. He died in 2024 before being tried for any of the three murders he also confessed to, but authorities continue to investigate.
No description of the unidentified man is publicly available at this time. However, as many of Wade's associates were criminals and drug users, it is possible the man may have lived a similar lifestyle.