Kelly Hunt's Death: Anchorage Police Investigate

It's April 30th.

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Dozens showed up on an Anchorage Street Corner Wednesday night to honor 19-year-old Kelly

Hunt from Shocktoolik.

She went missing in early January from the Spanard area and was heading back to Alaska

Christian College in Soldotna.

Her body turned up April 20th and a wooded spot near the 3500 block of Lois Drive.

The death is still under investigation with no arrests so far.

Anchorage police are waiting on the state medical examiner to figure out the cause.

Chief Sean Case says they're digging deep to see if foul play was involved.

Family and advocates for missing and murdered indigenous people are speaking out.

They question why the search took so long after her January 11th report.

One community member pointed out she had school starting soon and wouldn't just vanish

like that.

Others feel police didn't take it seriously at first, assuming she turned up.

The cops insist they jumped on leads right away, working day and night from day one.

As things stand, this could wrap as a regular death probe or shift to homicide.

Investigators are pushing forward until they know for sure what happened to Kelly.