According to a June 23 press release, Homer Police consider Duffy’s case to be active and under investigation. Her parents have long believed that she was murdered, but say they were still surprised to learn her death was a homicide. According to online court records, Homer Superior Court Judge Bride Seifert issued a death certificate for Duffy on June 25. On June 17, 2021, a six-member jury decided that Duffy can be presumed dead and also determined that her death was a homicide. Sara filed a presumptive death petition for her daughter in April, 2021. She added that there has been no activity on Duffy’s bank cards and her phone battery was dead at the time of her disappearance. According to Homer Police Department Lieutenant Ryan Browning, search dogs tracked Duffy’s scent into downtown Homer but then lost it, reaching a point search-dog handlers call a “car pick up.” Duffy’s mother, Sara Berg, says the family believes someone picked her up in a vehicle and that she has been abducted. Duffy’s family told Dateline that she did not own a car and usually walked everywhere she went. For weeks, law enforcement, assisted by K-9 units, searched the area where Duffy was known to frequently travel by foot. In the video, Duffy is wearing a blue jacket, light blue shirt and blue jeans. Police said security cameras captured Duffy leaving the Maintree Apartments on foot around 12:15 p.m. McPherron at 90.Īnesha “Duffy” Murnane, 38, was last seen on security video on October 17, 2019, leaving her Homer, Alaska apartment heading to a 1 p.m. Anyone with information about Erin’s case is asked to call the Alaska State Troopers at 90 or Lt. At the time of her disappearance, Erin was described as 5’5’, 145 lbs, with brown hair and hazel eyes. Erin’s sister, Stephanie, started a Facebook page FindingErinMarieGilbert, where she continues to post regularly. McPherron told Dateline in 2021 that there have been no updates in the case. He added there are no suspects in Erin’s disappearance but said they have attempted to reach Dave Combs multiple times for questioning. Lieutenant Randy McPherron, who is the sole investigator in the Alaska State Troopers’ Cold Case Investigation Unit, told Dateline in 2019 they haven’t received any leads in several years, but said he would follow up on any that come in. He stated he went back to the fair and searched for Erin until about 1 a.m. Combs said when he tried to start the car this time, it worked. He told authorities he figured Erin returned to the fair. When he returned to the car, he said Erin was gone. He said he walked for about two hours, but was unable to find his friend’s house. He told Erin he would walk to a nearby friend’s house for help. In a statement to authorities in 1995, Dave Combs said they walked to his car, but the lights had been left on and it would not start.
They drove to the Girdwood Forest Fair, and according to witness statements to the Alaska State Troopers, Erin was last seen at a beer garden with her date before they left around 6 p.m. Her sister, Stephanie, told Dateline that Erin left for her date on July 1 with David “Dave” Combs, a man whom Stephanie said Erin had met a few nights earlier at a local bar.
Erin had moved to Alaska the year prior and was working as a nanny. The 24-year-old has been missing ever since. Erin Marie Gilbert went on a first date to the Girdwood Forest Fair in Girdwood, Alaska on July 1, 1995.
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