Kendall Rae

wildly ridiculous way that the investigation led to the most unlikely suspect.

We're going to be going over the case of Sonia Ivanoff, and her case is so deeply upsetting because it was so unnecessary.

Her murder never could have been predicted by her friends and family, and there was just absolutely nothing

No point to it.

There's no reason why she shouldn't be here with them today.

She was a wonderful young woman with a lot of promise, and of course, I want to start out by talking about her.

Sonia Ivanoff was born on April 13, 1994, to her parents Maggie and Larry Ivanoff, and they lived in Unalakleet, Alaska.

Unfortunately, there isn't that much information out there about her younger years, but I will share what I was able to find.

So she was the fourth child of six children in her family, and her and her older sister, Christine, were the only two girls out of all of them.

And the town that they grew up in was a very small village in Norton Sound, which is on the western coast of Alaska.

And not only is it in a remote area, but it has a population of just 700 people, and most of the community is Native Alaskan.

And Sonia was well-known in the area, mainly because of her very outgoing and bubbly, friendly type of personality.

And people who knew her described her as goofy.

as fun and having a positive attitude pretty much all the time.

But she wasn't just known because she was an extrovert.

She was also a star athlete on the local basketball team, which made her prominent throughout Norton Sound.

Then in 2002, Sonia graduated from high school and she moved to Nome, Alaska.

Now, even though Nome's population in 2003 was about 3,554 people, it is considered a city in that area, and Sonia decided to move there for better job opportunities so that she could save money for college, and eventually her goal was to move to Hilo, Hawaii, and...

I don't blame her.

Beautiful place.