Court documents detail the case against a Wasilla man accused of a double murder along the Denali Highway.
42-year-old Bruce Floyd Dowd Butler is charged with killing his estranged wife: 42-year-old Lynn Butler, and her friend: 61-year-old Richard Casler, over the July 4th weekend in 2015.
Their bodies were found in a storage container at a remote site near mile 79 of the Denali Highway. Autopsies determined that Lynn Butler died of gun shots, and that Casler was shot and beaten to death.
A complaint filed in superior court in Anchorage compiles evidence collected at the murder scene, cell phone records, witness statements, and Bruce Butler’s own communications in recommending double first degree murder charges.
Among the evidence are domestic violence incidents involving the Butlers, and statements made by a former friend, alleging Bruce Butler told him he killed his wife.
The complaint also includes a confession Butler is alleged to have made to a person he met at a state park campground in Sterling earlier this (June) month.
Bruce Butler was arrested at his Wasilla home Tuesday.
Dan Bross is a reporter at KUAC in Fairbanks.
