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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Suspect who sent anonymous tip to Alaska police charged with 1993 killing

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Fairbanks, Alaska, in June 2021. Photograph: Jacob Boomsma/Getty Images/iStockphoto

A Michigan man suspected of having murdered a co-worker in Alaska in 1993 was arrested recently after he called in what he intended to be an anonymous tip revealing where he had hidden the victim’s long missing body, according to investigators.

Christopher Popps, 54, faces charges of second-degree murder in the death of Patrick Dearth, Alaska state police said in a statement detailing the latest developments in a case that had remained unsolved for more than three decades.

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