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Prosecutors said Downs showed no remorse. Sergie was sexually assaulted, shot in head and stabbed multiple times. Read more at Boston.com.

Janitors found Sophie Sergie's body in a bathtub in the shower room on the afternoon of April 26, 1993.

The 1993 killing of 20-year-old Sophie Sergie in a dormitory bathroom at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks was one of the state's most notorious unsolved murders for decades.

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Steven Downs was convicted on circumstantial evidence, say his lawyers, who are asking for acquittal or a new trial. They filed a motion in Fairbanks Superior Court last week. It is attached here.

A Maine man convicted earlier this month of the 1993 rape and murder of a woman at an Alaska university is seeing a new trial.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A jury in Alaska found a man guilty on Thursday of the rape and murder of a woman at a university dormitory that went unsolved for more than two decades until a DNA match for the assailant was found using genetic genealogy tracing.

Native organizations and former UAF students gather at courthouse one day after guilty verdict in murder case.

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Officials said the female victim was sexually assaulted, shot in the back of the head and stabbed numerous times.