Press Release
Tuckfield Sentenced To 99 Years For 2008 Murder of Travis Villa
June 28, 2023
(Anchorage, AK) – On April 28, 2023, Superior Court Judge Kevin M. Saxby sentenced 37-year-old Kevin Tuckfield to serve 99 years for the 2008 murder of Travis Villa.
Tuckfield pled guilty to one count of murder in the first degree for the September 9, 2008 murder in the Mountain View neighborhood of Anchorage. The murder was unsolved until Tuckfield confessed in 2014. Judge Saxby found Tuckfield to be a worst offender in sentencing him to the maximum term.
Tuckfield is currently in the custody of the Department of Corrections serving another sentence. Tuckfield has been previously convicted of sexual assault, escape from a correctional facility, robbery, and attempted kidnapping.
CONTACT: Assistant Attorney General Daniel K. Shorey, at (907) 269-6369 or daniel.shorey@alaska.gov.
# # #
Department Media Contact: Information Officer Sam Curtis at sam.curtis@alaska.gov or (907) 269-6269.
Due to resource constraints, we no longer post links to referenced records. Records filed in a federal court are readily available at Docket Search or PACER, and records filed in a State of Alaska court are readily available from the Alaska Court System (Trial Courts - Alaska Court System and Search for an Appellate Case). Contact Sam Curtis to request a referenced record that is not readily available from a court or on the internet, or contact law.recordsrequest@alaska.gov to submit a formal Alaska Public Records Act request.