The Kodiak man who was recently convicted and sentenced for the 2012 double murder at the Coast Guard Communication Station in Kodiak filed a notice with the court on Friday that he plans to appeal the case. James Michael Wells was convicted in the murder of two co-workers in an October 2019 trial, and sentenced for life on each of …
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UPDATED Jan. 8 to include background information in an audio version of story. A Kodiak man will spend his life in prison after being sentenced to six life terms in the 2012 murders of two co-workers at the Coast Communication Station in Kodiak. KMXT’s Maggie Wall has more. Click arrow to listen to report, or continue reading below. …
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Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently ordered a retrial for a man convicted of committing two murders on Coast Guard base Kodiak. In April 2012, two coast guard employees at Communications Station Kodiak were found dead by gunshot: Richard Belisle, a retired Coast Guardsman, and James Hopkins, an active duty Coast Guardsman. Investigators tied a blue SUV to …
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