{"id":17405,"date":"2019-01-08T17:01:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T17:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butcherbaker.net\/wordpress\/?p=17405"},"modified":"2021-11-13T08:43:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T16:43:40","slug":"sgt-glenn-flothe-takes-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/08\/sgt-glenn-flothe-takes-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Sgt. Glenn Flothe Takes On Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFive days after the second body was found on the Knik, Lieutenant Bob Jent of the Alaska State Troopers assigned Sergeant Glenn Flothe (pronounced \u201cFlowthie\u201d) to the Knik River murders. At that time he\u2019d been working on seventeen other homicides. He\u2019d solved all except one of them, but most still needed follow-up. That meant Flothe was stuck shepherding his cases through the judicial system.<\/em>
“Jent changed all that. Flothe was to work full-time on the Knik cases.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpt From<\/strong>: Walter Gilmour & Leland E. Hale. \u201cButcher, Baker.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The sense that Sgt. Glenn Flothe was an ace homicide detective was borne out not by braggadocio but by facts. He got results. But he was not\u00a0the stereotypical hard-nosed cop. The professorial Flothe had a\u00a0manner that was more supportive, even-handed, confessional. As Walter Gilmour once said of Flothe, “we put all the asshole cops on the missing dancers\u00a0case and they didn’t solve it. We figured it was time to try\u00a0the\u00a0nice guy.”<\/p>\n

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Sgt. Glenn Flothe<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s Flothe’s take on that\u00a0same period<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“Goulding and Morrow were found before I was assigned in late [September] of 83. During the initial investigation by Haugsven, I was involved in Walatka, Ron & Darcelle Cole, Duncan, Spierings, Music, Harley, Hopen, Dickinson, Wafer, Kwallek, Ballenger, Landesman, Goodman, Krakoff, Farrant, Besh & Investor homicides until Jent assigned me to the case because it had stalled and Stauber was going on the S.O.M.E. run.” [1]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Those weren’t the only items on Flothe’s resume. In Fairbanks, he’d worked a serial murder case involving, among others, the death of\u00a0Glinda Sodemann \u2014 a trooper\u2019s daughter \u2014 who was found shot in the face with a .357. Glinda\u00a0was a newlywed with\u00a0a small baby and, according to her husband, when he arrived home on August 29 the baby was in the crib, but Glinda was gone. By all accounts, Glinda was happy and had no reason to run away from home;\u00a0investigators found no evidence to suggest foul play.<\/p>\n

The following October, Glinda\u2019s decomposed body was found in a gravel pit near Moose Creek on the Richardson Highway, not far from Eielson Air Force Base and twenty-two miles south of Fairbanks.<\/p>\n

That location proved crucial: Her killer, Thomas Richard Bunday<\/a>\u00a0worked on the base.<\/p>\n

There was no denying, then or now, that Flothe had the kind of experience that might break the logjam in a missing dancers case.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2018. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n

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[1] In \u00181979 the Alaska State Troopers conducted the first Special Olympics Mileage Event, which later became known as the S.O.M.E. Run. For twelve years this was a Department of Public Safety members\u2019 annual event. It was also a major fundraiser for the Alaska Special Olympics.<\/p>\n

Purchase Butcher, Baker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Order my latest book, “What Happened In Craig<\/strong>,” HERE<\/strong><\/a> and HERE<\/strong><\/a>, true crime on Epicenter Press about Alaska\u2019s Worst Unsolved Mass Murder.<\/em><\/p>\n

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