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Anchorage Sets a Grim New Record

Last year, police in Anchorage said they were troubled by a mysterious spike in murders

This year has been even worse. Police say they have determined that a man whose body was found outside the Alaska city was murdered in Anchorage, making it a record 35 homicides for the year, with almost three weeks to go, KTOO reports.

 The previous record was set last year, which had 34 homicides, way over what police said is the usual range of 12 to 24 killings per year. Before 2016, the year with the most homicides in Anchorage was 1995, with 29.

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