CENTRAL AMERICA -- A former Alaska state trooper on the run for years from a charge that he killed a girlfriend in Nevada in 1995 has been found dead in Central America, the FBI said.
Meanwhile, his current girlfriend and the couple's two children were found slain in a nearby city.
The body of John Patrick Addis was positively identified this week by fingerprints, said David Staretz, spokesman for the FBI in Nevada.
Addis, 56, had been on the lam since Joanne Albanese vanished in 1995. Her remains were found three years later in Arizona, and he was charged with killing her. A nationwide manhunt began.
Addis moved all over the country and resettled in Mexico, according to authorities.
Authorities said they are investigating Addis's death as a suicide and the death of his family as murder.
Addis' body was found in a hotel room in Guatemala City, Guatemala, several hours away from the city in Mexico where his girlfriend and children were found dead, according to material on the "America's Most Wanted" Web site. The television show has featured Addis multiple times.
Addis had been teaching English and tennis in Mexico, according to the Web site.
Addis was a homicide investigator with the Alaska State Troopers in the 1970s and 1980s. He was an instructor in crime scene and death investigations.
He was an Alaska fugitive at the time Albanese disappeared, having violated parole after a 1987 conviction on parental abduction charges.
-- Anchorage Daily News
