Overview

Last seen: August 28, 2010
Location: Tuluksak, Alaska, near the river by the village airfield and a boat launch
Age: 19
Date of birth: November 9, 1990
NamUs #: MP54492
Alaska case #: 100083077
Current status: Missing; circumstances classified as suspicious; also listed as an unresolved homicide investigation.

Main Circumstances

• Alexie was last seen near the river in Tuluksak, close to the airfield and a boat launch.
• He was 19 when he disappeared on August 28, 2010.
• A secondary Alaska outdoor-fatality database categorizes the incident as a drowning, but this should not be treated as a confirmed official determination of what happened.
• Alaska’s current official missing-person reporting instead categorizes the circumstances surrounding Alexie’s disappearance as suspicious.
• The Alaska Bureau of Investigation separately lists Alexie among the state’s unresolved homicides, under case number 100083077.
• No publicly identified suspect, arrest, prosecution, or recovery of Alexie’s remains was located in the sources reviewed for this article.

Detailed Case Breakdown

Crim Alexie: The Unresolved 2010 Disappearance and Homicide Case in Tuluksak, Alaska

Crim Alexie was 19 years old when he disappeared from the small Alaska village of Tuluksak on August 28, 2010. More than fifteen years later, his case remains unresolved. Current Alaska Department of Public Safety records continue to identify Alexie as a missing Alaska Native man whose disappearance occurred under suspicious circumstances, while the Alaska Bureau of Investigation also includes him on its official list of unresolved homicide investigations.

The unusual dual status is important. Although some secondary sources have characterized Alexie’s disappearance as an apparent drowning, Alaska authorities continue to publicly classify the circumstances as suspicious and include his name among unresolved homicide cases. There is no publicly documented resolution explaining exactly what happened to him.

Very Brief Case Summary

Last seen: August 28, 2010
Location: Tuluksak, Alaska, near the river by the village airfield and a boat launch
Age: 19
Date of birth: November 9, 1990
NamUs #: MP54492
Alaska case #: 100083077
Current status: Missing; circumstances classified as suspicious; also listed as an unresolved homicide investigation.

Main Circumstances

• Alexie was last seen near the river in Tuluksak, close to the airfield and a boat launch.
• He was 19 when he disappeared on August 28, 2010.
• A secondary Alaska outdoor-fatality database categorizes the incident as a drowning, but this should not be treated as a confirmed official determination of what happened.
• Alaska’s current official missing-person reporting instead categorizes the circumstances surrounding Alexie’s disappearance as suspicious.
• The Alaska Bureau of Investigation separately lists Alexie among the state’s unresolved homicides, under case number 100083077.
• No publicly identified suspect, arrest, prosecution, or recovery of Alexie’s remains was located in the sources reviewed for this article.

What Happened to Crim Alexie?

Crim Alexie was born November 9, 1990. Alaska Department of Public Safety records identify him as an Alaska Native/American Indian male and place his disappearance in Tuluksak, a village in the Bethel region of western Alaska.

On August 28, 2010, Alexie was reportedly last seen by the river in Tuluksak, near the village airfield and a boat launch. That location remains one of the most significant publicly available details concerning the hours surrounding his disappearance.

There is relatively little publicly available information describing what Alexie was doing immediately before he vanished, who last saw him, or what evidence investigators subsequently discovered.

One source devoted to Alaska outdoor fatalities lists Alexie’s August 28, 2010 incident in Tuluksak as a drowning. However, that database is not the controlling law-enforcement record, and its characterization differs significantly from current Alaska Department of Public Safety information.

The state’s records now provide a much more concerning classification.

Why Crim Alexie’s Case Is Considered Suspicious

The Alaska Department of Public Safety publishes reports concerning missing Alaska Native, American Indian, and individuals of unknown race. In the state’s 2026 first-quarter report, Crim Alexie remains listed as missing from Tuluksak since August 28, 2010.

Most significantly, the state categorizes the circumstances as “Suspicious.”

That classification distinguishes Alexie’s case from numerous other missing-person cases in the same report that are categorized as environmental, unknown, or not suspicious.

There is another important development in the way authorities publicly identify the case: Alexie appears on the Alaska Bureau of Investigation’s official Unresolved Homicides list. The listing identifies:

Alexie, Crim — August 28, 2010 — Tuluksak — Case #100083077.

The state’s unresolved-homicide page explains that the list contains unresolved homicide investigations initially investigated by the Alaska State Troopers or formally adopted from another police agency.

Consequently, although Alexie remains publicly documented as a missing person, the latest official information available indicates that authorities are treating his case much more seriously than a routine disappearance or presumed accidental drowning.

Conflicting Public Descriptions of the Case

Publicly accessible sources present two different descriptions of what may have happened.

The Alaska Outdoor Fatality Listing categorizes Crim Alexie’s August 28, 2010 case as a drowning associated with hiking. That site’s information was last revised in 2018.

By contrast, current Alaska Department of Public Safety records describe Alexie’s disappearance as suspicious, and the Alaska Bureau of Investigation places him on its unresolved-homicide list.

The current official law-enforcement classifications therefore carry substantially greater weight when describing the status of the investigation.

There is no publicly available information reviewed here establishing that Alexie’s death by drowning was confirmed. Likewise, his inclusion on an unresolved-homicide list does not by itself establish precisely how he died or identify who may have been responsible.

Until investigators publicly disclose additional evidence, the exact circumstances surrounding his disappearance remain unknown.

Latest Investigation Information

As of the latest publicly available Alaska Department of Public Safety information reviewed in 2026, Crim Alexie’s case remains unresolved.

The state’s 2026 first-quarter Missing Alaska Natives/American Indians report continues to list him as missing and continues to classify his circumstances as suspicious.

The Alaska Bureau of Investigation also continues to list Alexie on its unresolved-homicide page under case number 100083077.

This is significant because the Alaska Bureau of Investigation now has a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons unit. According to the agency, the MMIP unit was established in 2022 and focuses exclusively on unresolved homicides and suspicious missing-person cases involving Alaska Native and American Indian victims.

ABI explains that unresolved homicides may become eligible for investigation by its Cold Case Investigation Unit or MMIP investigators after remaining unsolved for five years with no viable unexplored investigative leads. Cases can also receive a cold-case designation earlier when leads have been exhausted and the designation is approved by the ABI commander.

Public records reviewed for this article do not disclose whether a particular ABI investigator is currently assigned to Alexie’s case, what evidence has been collected, whether investigators have developed persons of interest, or whether forensic evidence is undergoing renewed testing.

No publicly announced arrest or prosecution connected to Alexie’s disappearance was located.

What can be established is that the case has not disappeared from Alaska’s active public records. More than fifteen years after Alexie vanished, the state continues to identify his disappearance as suspicious and his name remains on the unresolved-homicide list.

A Case Still Waiting for Answers

Crim Alexie was only 19 when he vanished near the river in Tuluksak.

The limited amount of information publicly released about his disappearance leaves many fundamental questions unanswered: Who last saw him? What happened near the river that day? What caused investigators to classify his disappearance as suspicious? What evidence ultimately resulted in his inclusion among Alaska’s unresolved homicide investigations?

Publicly available records do not answer those questions.

What they do establish is that Crim Alexie’s disappearance remains unresolved. Despite the passage of more than fifteen years, Alaska authorities continue to list him as a missing Alaska Native man under suspicious circumstances and as the subject of an unresolved homicide investigation.

Anyone with information that could help investigators should contact the Alaska State Troopers or Alaska Bureau of Investigation and reference case number 100083077 and NamUs MP54492.