Slavomir Markowitz
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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That also coincided with the fact that the first texts from Samantha's phone came at 11.30 p.m. So we have that person entering the coffee stand after 11 p.m., and then 11.30 p.m., a text comes from Samantha's phone.
the family, James Koenig and some volunteers, started to distribute flyers about her being missing.
At that point in the investigation, we learned that Samantha Koenig and Dwayne Tortolani had a joint bank account. And they both had debit cards for that bank account. And on the night of Samantha's disappearance, Duane saw a man in Samantha's truck. It looks like he was searching the vehicle, looking for something. Duane told us that nothing appeared to be missing.
But we looked at the bank records, and we saw that Samantha Penning's debit card was used. We realized that it was Samantha's debit card that was missing.
That was interesting. Someone had to know the PIN number. Why not take the money from the account?
Statistically, when a young woman is going missing, 80% or 90% of the time it's a boyfriend or husband or someone very close to her. So we had to look at Duane. Duane told us that he had called Samantha right before the end of her shift and told her he was going to pick her up. We saw in that video that's what happened.
He came to the coffee stand about 8.30 p.m., and he walked around the coffee stand.
Duane worked at a restaurant, and he had an alibi for that day. Fairly quickly, I realized it was very unlikely that he had anything to do with it.
It wasn't like a normal missing person case. We are becoming more and more concerned. So we started to expand our investigation.
You could see a couple walking through the parking lot near a busy restaurant and go into a vehicle, a white Chevy pickup truck.
So we knew it was a white Chevy pickup truck that the suspect was using.
There are 700 white Chevrolet pickup trucks in Anchorage and the area. So, of course, when you have that many vehicles, it takes a long time.
It was a stranger abduction. During that time period, we told the media we have a video, and it's apparent from the video that it's kidnapping.
And there was a lot of public demand. You know, we want to see the video. Why doesn't police department want to release the video? Police say it will not help them solve the crime.
James Koenig pretty much called me daily. Slav, do you have anything new for me? Slav, is there anything we could do? He would tell me about his fundraising efforts. Of course, I had a lot of sympathy for him. My daughter at the time was working in a coffee stand. So, you know, I'm a police officer, but I'm also a father, and my daughter is in a very similar situation.
You know, if it happened to Samantha, it could happen to somebody else. As days pass by, we are following up the leads, and we are hitting a wall everywhere.
and suddenly we get this big break.
It's the first big break that happened in the case since obtaining some video evidence three weeks earlier.
There was a photo of a young woman. She's naked, she's bound, her hair is braided, she's got duct tape over her mouth. The photo was very disturbing. It was a thumbnail-sized image. The more we enlarged it, the more grainy it was becoming.
I contacted James Koenig. If it was really his daughter, I knew that it was going to be heartbreaking for him to see that photo. It was just me and James Koenig in the interview room. And I put the photo in front of him. He stared at it for a long time. And then he said, yes, it is Samantha in the photo. I saw him as a grieving father. He was worried sick and it was, you know, genuine.
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