2020: The year we came together, living distantly Posted by Katherine Rose and Robert Woolsey, KCAW | Dec 31, 2020 Alaska Department of Public Safety Commissioner Amanda Price stands alongside photos of Jessica Baggen taken at her 17th birthday party in 1996. Baggen was murdered later that same evening as she walked home on the Sawmill Creek Road bicycle path. It wasn’t until August, 2020, that “genetic geneaology” was used to identify a suspect living in Arkansas. (DPS image) In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was like the pavement that all other stories rolled on- everything from school closures, the poor fishing season, the non-existent cruise season, to elections. Most news was propelled by the pandemic in some way.