Joshua Wade

After the trial, Wade was transferred to serve his sentence at the Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward. He initially attempted to amend his plea deal, but after that proved his unsuccessful, he contacted state and federal authorities in 2014, claiming that he had a proposal for them. Once interviewed, Wade admitted to three further murders, demanding that he be transferred to serve his sentence in the federal prison system in exchange. This request was granted, and he was soon transferred to USP Terre Haute, where he is currently incarcerated. Since his admission to the three additional killings, the FBI and state police have been attempting to uncover the identity of his unknown murder victim, as well as possibly link him to any further violent crimes.

In 2007, 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. On August 3, he got angry after an apparent rough day at work and decided to rob Schloss, who was at home at the time. After creeping inside her house, Wade restrained her with zip ties and forced her to give up her ATM card and PIN before stuffing her in the back seat of his red Acura Integra. He 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. After making sure she was dead, he burned her body and subsequently left the area.

One night in September 2000, Wade and a few friends were driving around Spenard when he spotted 33-year-old Della Brown, an Alaska Native woman with a drug and alcohol addiction. After dropping off his friends, he returned to the place where he had spotted Brown and attempted rob her. A struggle ensued, with Wade overpowering her and smashing her head with a rock. He then left her half-naked body in an abandoned, trash-filled shed, later showing the body to acquaintances. Supposedly, he killed an unidentified man who had accompanied him to the shed where he killed Brown - according to Wade, he knocked the victim out, put him in the trunk of his car and went for some drinks. Upon returning to the car and hearing the banging on the trunk for help, he drove outside of town to a secluded area in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, got him out of the car, repeatedly stomped on his head, took off his clothes and ultimately shot him twice in the head execution-style.

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. Shortly before his death, Martin had left a Village Inn he regularly visited to have coffee with friends. At the time of the murder, Wade was 14 years old and had no known connection to his victim. Five years later, in December 1999, he claimed to have killed 30-year-old Henry Ongtowasruk at a motel in Knik-Fairview. His victim suffered from a mental illness and had lived at the motel for approximately a week before he was found shot to death by an employee in one of the rooms. Like Martin before him, Ongtowasruk had no known prior connection to Wade.

Joshua Alan Wade (born March 13, 1980) is an American serial killer who has been convicted of two separate murders committed in Alaska in 2000 and 2007, respectively, and sentenced to 99 years imprisonment. Wade pled guilty to one of the murders in federal court to avoid execution. Seven years later, as part of a plea deal, he confessed to three additional murders, including one which he had previously been acquitted of, dating back to 1994 in exchange for a transfer to a federal prison.

Joshua Alan Wade was born on March 13, 1980, in Anchorage, Alaska. He never met his father and raised solely by his mother, who resorted to placing him in an acquaintance's care so she could work. Unknown to her, that same acquaintance started sexually abusing her son when he was five. This greatly affected Wade, who bottled up his feelings, stopped going to church and developed an addiction to marijuana. After suffering a failed romance as a teenager, he began to develop anger issues and soon after started getting in trouble with law enforcement. According to his father, sister and several friends, Wade openly expressed his hatred of women, particularly towards Alaska Natives.