It's now been a week since Letitia Ann Baxter, a 63-year-old Anchorage woman, went missing after leaving her sister's home near downtown Anchorage, and there has been little development in the case so far.
Anchorage police sent out a notice Tuesday asking for the public's help in locating Baxter, who was last seen at about 1:15 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 3 when she left her sister's house on Beech Lane, located near the Park Strip in downtown Anchorage. She said she was going to run some errands downtown.
Baxter's family said that she is very familiar with Anchorage's trail system, and that she walked everywhere. Along Chester Creek Trail, which runs between Baxter's sister's house and Baxter's own apartment on Eagle Street, missing person bulletins with Baxter's picture are stapled to trees and taped to signs and bridges. The trail is heavily wooded at points, and its namesake creek runs alongside the trail for much of its length.
Police spokeswoman Marlene Lammers said Friday that a search conducted on Wednesday with volunteers in the Anchorage Police Department's auxiliary search unit didn't turn up any information.
Lammers said they searched the trails and banks around Goose and University lakes, and covered ground from the Campbell Creek Trail, on the south side of Tudor Road, all the way to Westchester Lagoon, where the Chester Creek Trail turns into the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail. Searchers also checked nearby hotels.
Lammers said there hasn't been any new information in the case.
Baxter is described as white, about 5-feet-6-inches tall and weighing 120 pounds. She has hazel eyes and gray hair. Anyone with information regarding her whereabouts is asked to call Anchorage police at 786-8900.