Joshua Alan Wade was an American serial killer who was convicted of two separate murders committed in Alaska in 2000 and 2007 respectively, and sentenced to 99 years imprisonment.
15 Facts About Joshua Wade
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Joshua Alan Wade was born on March 18,1980, in Great Falls, Montana, but moved to Anchorage at a young age to live with his father, while his mother resorted to placing him in an acquaintance's care so she could work.
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Joshua Wade's first confessed murder was that of 38-year-old John Michael Martin, an unemployed schizophrenic who was found shot to death along a bike trail in Anchorage in May 1994.
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At the time of the murder, Joshua Wade was 14 years old and had no known connection to his victim.
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Joshua Wade's victim suffered from a mental illness and had lived at the motel for approximately a week before he was found by an employee, shot to death in one of the rooms.
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Joshua Wade then left her half-naked body in an abandoned, trash-filled shed, later showing the body to acquaintances.
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Joshua Wade was always known to law enforcement and suspected of being responsible but no evidence at the time was available.
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In 2007, Joshua Wade moved into a new home in Anchorage, where he became the next-door neighbor of 52-year-old Mindy Schloss, a nurse practitioner who worked in Fairbanks.
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Joshua Wade then drove north towards an isolated area near Wasilla and, at gunpoint, forced Schloss into the woods, where he subsequently shot her in the back of the head with a Glock.
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Police arrived at the scene, but by then, Joshua Wade had already gone to a nearby acquaintance's home, where he held hostages at gunpoint.
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Joshua Wade was charged with Schloss' murder in state court, and faced additional federal charges of carjacking, theft and bank fraud.
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Joshua Wade initially attempted to amend his plea deal, but after that proved unsuccessful, he contacted state and federal authorities in 2014 claiming that he had a proposal for them.
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Once interviewed, Joshua Wade admitted to three further murders, demanding that he be transferred to serve his sentence in the federal prison system in exchange.
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Joshua Wade was later moved to Indiana State Prison, where he was incarcerated at the time of his death.
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On June 14,2024, Joshua Wade was found unresponsive in his cell at the Indiana State Prison and later pronounced dead.