Joshua Wade tearfully apologized in Anchorage courts Wednesday for murdering two Anchorage women in random acts of violence in 2000 and 2007. For his confessions, Wade was spared a potential death penalty had he been convicted in federal court.
Julia O'Malley: Beneath the apologies, he wept only for himself
Wade confesses to two murders in plea deal
Joshua Wade has admitted the jury got it wrong when it acquitted him of brutally murdering Della Brown in Anchorage 10 years ago. The verdict left him free to move next door to Mindy Schloss, the nurse he has admitted killing in an equally gruesome crime in 2007.
Julia O'Malley: Frustration haunts jurors who acquitted Wade
The sentencing memorandum that federal prosecutors filed in court Tuesday details the last days of Mindy Schloss in the summer of 2007. It also tells what was going on in Wade's life at the same time, how the crime occurred, and what Wade did in the days after Schloss' murder.
The story leading up to sentencing
Wade to change plea, face sentencing
Joshua Wade, accused of torturing and killing his Sand Lake neighbor and facing a federal death penalty trial, will change his plea and be sentenced Wednesday, according to court filings.
Wade loses bid to bar trial testimony
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected accused killer Joshua Wade's effort to keep a witness from testifying.
New evidence emerges in Wade murder case
A witness heard a woman screaming for help in Mindy Schloss' neighborhood about the same time Schloss vanished from her Sand Lake home, according to new court documents filed in the murder case against Joshua Wade.
Wade murder trial postponed until August, judge rules
The capital murder trial against Joshua Wade is being postponed until August under an order from a federal judge.
Prosecutors counter murder suspect Wade's mail claims
Prosecutors in the Joshua Wade capital murder case say his effort to get the case thrown out because of jailhouse mail errors is "truly extraordinary and unwarranted."
Jail opens Wade's mail, his attorneys say
Attorneys representing accused murderer Joshua Wade are alleging Anchorage jail officials have violated the inmate's rights by repeatedly opening privileged mail from them.
Wade trial delay ruling appealed
Lawyers for an Anchorage man accused of murdering a neighbor are asking for a delay in a trial involving the use of the dead woman's ATM card.
Wade's attorneys ask to delay trial for three months
Defense attorneys for accused murderer Joshua Wade are asking for a trial delay, according to paperwork filed in U.S. District Court on Friday.
Accused killer to remain in solitary confinement
A U.S. Magistrate judge has ruled that accused murderer Joshua Wade will stay in solitary confinement at the Anchorage Jail.
Solitary confinement harming murder suspect, attorney says
Since May, accused murderer Joshua Wade has been locked in solitary confinement in the Anchorage jail. No TV or radio. No chance to take classes. No contact with other human beings except corrections officers and his lawyers. He gets out for an hour a day to exercise -- alone in the yard.
Wade attorneys dispute reasons for execution
Lawyers for Joshua Wade are challenging many of the reasons laid out by federal prosecutors as justification for the death penalty, including the government's assertion that he killed a woman back in 2000, long before the murder case he's now charged in.
Murder suspect's marriage ruling being appealed
Lawyers for Joshua Wade are appealing the ruling of a federal judge that the marriage between the accused murderer and a witness in his upcoming trial was invalid.
Wade jailhouse marriage ruled invalid by federal judge
A federal judge has declared the jailhouse marriage of accused killer Joshua Wade invalid. Prosecutors portrayed the marriage as a farce aimed at stopping the woman from testifying against Wade.
Judge rules Wade witness names can be withheld
The names of some witnesses prosecutors hope will convince a jury that Joshua Wade tortured and murdered his neighbor can be kept from his attorneys until just days before his federal trial.
Prosecutors say they're worried for Wade witnesses' safety
Federal prosecutors say they are concerned for the safety of witnesses who might testify against accused killer Joshua Wade because of a letter he wrote to a "criminal associate" in which he talked about "rats" and "snitches" and mentioned he had beaten one up.
Feds call Joshua Wade's jailhouse wedding illegal
Federal prosecutors want a judge to declare the jailhouse wedding of accused killer Joshua Wade a farce intended to prevent the purported wife from testifying against him.
Federal judge sends Wade back to Alaska
Accused murderer Joshua Wade will spend his time waiting for his federal trial at the Anchorage jail, federal Judge John Roberts decided Friday.
Federal prosecutors seek death penalty for Joshua Wade
An Anchorage jury acquitted Joshua Wade of murder in 2003, but federal prosecutors are challenging that verdict and plan to argue he was guilty as they push to execute him for the murder of Mindy Schloss.
Death penalty decision for Joshua Wade postponed
A decision from Washington, D.C., about whether accused murderer Joshua Wade will face death if convicted has been pushed off until mid-April, a prosecutor in the case confirmed Tuesday.
Wade trial postponed until October
The trial for accused killer Joshua Wade has been put off until late September, a federal judge said Tuesday afternoon. It was originally scheduled for May.
Wade neighbor too intimidated to talk
Joshua Wade intimidated a female neighbor to keep her from talking to police, according to testimony from an Anchorage police detective in a hearing today.
Defense challenges reliability of bloodhounds' evidence
The reported accuracy of dogs turning up evidence in criminal investigations should be viewed with caution, a college professor testified Thursday in a hearing over bloodhound evidence against accused killer Joshua Wade.
Scents put Wade and Schloss in Kincaid Park area
Before she was found burned and shot to death in a wooded area in Wasilla, Mindy Schloss was at Kincaid Park and may have been alive, according to evidence from human scent and cadaver dogs.
Wade's jail diary laced with violent details
In his jail cell, accused killer Joshua Wade kept a blue Mead notebook in which he wrote the details of his kidnapping and killing of Mindy Schloss, FBI investigators say.
Wade's lawyers want him closer to them in Seattle
Lawyers defending accused killer Joshua Wade told a federal judge on Friday that they wanted their client transported back to Seattle so they could better prepare his case.
Wade's attorney tries to discredit bloodhounds' work
The next big event in the legal fight leading up to Joshua Wade's trial for the murder of nurse practitioner Mindy Schloss is a hearing in October that's expected to revolve around two bloodhounds.
Gold watch found in suspect's house may help build case
Shortly after Mindy Schloss disappeared a year ago, investigators searched the home of her neighbor, Joshua Wade, on Cutty Sark Street in South Anchorage. They found a women's gold watch.
Prosecutors want Wade tried on marijuana charge
In U.S. District Court on Monday, federal prosecutors asked a judge to consider trying Joshua Wade -- the man accused of killing psychiatric nurse practitioner Mindy Schloss last summer--on a marijuana possession charge before he goes to trial for murder.
Wade trial waits for execution evaluation
It will be at least a year before Joshua Wade faces a jury on charges he murdered psychiatric nurse practitioner Mindy Schloss, a federal judge said Friday in U.S. District Court.
Death-penalty decision delays Wade trial
It will be at least a year before Joshua Wade faces a jury on charges he murdered psychiatric nurse practitioner Mindy Schloss, a judge said this morning in U.S. District Court.
Wade gets second lawyer, pleads not guilty in killing
Joshua Wade, accused of killing nurse practitioner Mindy Schloss, was granted a request for a second lawyer Tuesday, a move that anticipates the possibility prosecutors will ask for the death penalty.
Joshua Wade could face the death penalty on allegations handed down in federal court Thursday that he tortured and killed Mindy Schloss, an Anchorage psychiatric nurse.
Grand jury indicts Wade in Schloss murder
Joshua Wade could face the death penalty after a federal grand jury indicted him in the torturing and killing of Anchorage nurse Mindy Schloss last fall.
Lawyer hints at big changes in Schloss case
Something big is about to happen in the federal case against Joshua Wade, something related to the killing of his next-door neighbor, psychiatric nurse Mindy Schloss, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
Joshua Wade, indicted on federal bank fraud charges for allegedly using the ATM card of a murdered woman, will probably be moved from Alaska to a prison in Seattle, his lawyer said Friday.
Seattle lawyer to undertake Wade's defense
A special public defender hired by the government to represent Joshua Wade on federal fraud charges is a Seattle lawyer whose clients have included the Hells Angels, a nightclub owner once involved in shady dealings at Anchorage strip clubs, and an inmate he saved from death row.
Joshua Wade's attorney seeks a change of venue
A lawyer for Joshua Wade wants his trial moved elsewhere. Wade, 27, has been accused of using the ATM card of Mindy Schloss, a psychiatric nurse found murdered Sept. 13 off Knik Goose-Bay Road in Wasilla.
The attorney representing accused thief Joshua Wade withdrew today from the case. Wade is accused of using murder victim Mindy Schloss' bank card to withdraw money after she went missing. He also faces drug and weapons charges.
Autopsy of Mindy Schloss' remains scheduled for Monday
An autopsy to determine the cause of death of Anchorage nurse Mindy Schloss, who had been missing for six weeks until Thursday when her body was found in Wasilla, will likely start Monday, according to the state medical examiner.
Mindy Schloss' body found in Wasilla
A body found in the woods off Knik-Goose Bay Road in Wasilla is Mindy Schloss, the Sand Lake nurse who vanished in early August, Anchorage police said late Friday.
Grand jury indicts Wade for fraud and identity theft
A federal grand jury indicted Joshua Wade Tuesday afternoon on bank fraud and identity theft charges, accusing him of using an ATM card to take money from the account of Mindy Schloss, who vanished in early August and is presumed dead.
Judge weighs law in Wade case to determine evidence strength
After a hearing Monday, a federal magistrate said he needed more time to decide if prosecutors have enough evidence to try Joshua Wade for bank fraud. Wade, 27, is accused of using an ATM card belonging to Mindy Schloss, missing since Aug. 6 and presumed
Wade has little to say as he makes first court appearance
Joshua Wade is a danger to the community and the circumstances around his federal bank fraud charges are "very ominous," a federal prosecutor said Tuesday in Wade's first court appearance since his dramatic capture over the weekend.
A day after police and FBI agents captured Joshua Wade, wanted for questioning in the disappearance of a nurse, he was waiting in jail for his first court appearance today.
An early morning tip led Anchorage police and the FBI to Joshua Wade on Sunday, ending an intense manhunt for the man city investigators say they want to question about the disappearance of an Anchorage nurse.
Wade still missing; police say he's probably in state
Investigators continued running down leads about Joshua Wade's whereabouts Saturday, but the ex-convict they want to talk to in connection with missing nurse Mindy Schloss was nowhere to be found. Federal agents want to arrest Wade, 27, because they
Police search continues for Joshua Wade
Anchorage police and FBI agents continued looking Thursday for Joshua Wade, the former convict they've called a "person of interest" in the case of missing nurse Mindy Schloss.
Former murder suspect linked to missing nurse
Joshua Wade, acquitted four years ago of the rape and murder of a woman in a Spenard shack, is wanted by Anchorage police and the FBI in connection with the disappearance of nurse Mindy Schloss.
ATM image may be clue in nurse's disappearance
Anchorage police want to talk to a man photographed by an ATM camera early Sunday morning on the weekend Mindy Schloss vanished.
Hunt for missing nurse moves to depths of DeLong Lake
More than two weeks after she vanished, the hunt for missing nurse Mindy Schloss moved to the water Sunday when by early afternoon searchers seemed focused on DeLong Lake, just across Raspberry Road from Schloss' home.
Investigators question neighbors of missing nurse
Investigators searching for an Anchorage psychiatric nurse missing for more than two weeks questioned at least two of her neighbors at police headquarters Saturday.
Search for missing woman extends into woods
The search for an Anchorage psychiatric nurse missing for almost two weeks has turned to the wooded areas of Stevens International Airport and Kincaid Park, police said Wednesday.
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