McGrey said that his memory had become vague in the thirty years that had passed since Vickie was murdered, but he did recall going to the crime scene and that there was one of many “gravel barrel pits” there where the Department of Transportation loaded up gravel for road construction and repair. “Someone may have stopped to relieve himself, climbed up the gravel—it was higher than the road—and down into a depression and he found her there.”

McGrey said that he and other Alaska detectives had photographed the scene, measured it, and taken some physical evidence—which they bagged and tagged.

Here, Jaime McGrey had a sore spot. He had always...