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Man charged in Alaska cold case killing pleads not guilty

File – In this Aug. 6, 2019, file photo, Steven Downs is led into a courtroom for arraignment in Anchorage, Alaska.Downs has pleaded not guilty after being charged in the sexual assault and murder of a woman in Alaska in a case that remained unsolved for years. Downs entered his plea Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019, in a courtroom in Fairbanks, Alaska. He is charged in the death of Sophie Sergie, who was found stabbed and shot in a bathtub at a University of Alaska Fairbanks dormitory.

Mark Thiessen

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