ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – An Anchorage woman appeared in court last week facing felony evidence tampering and corpse misconduct charges after allegedly helping dump a woman’s body at a city trailhead following a fatal drug overdose late last year.
Melody Peggy Ramos-Snedden, 44, is charged with one count of tampering with physical evidence and one count of misconduct involving a corpse in connection with the December 2025 death of 28-year-old Kaitlyn Kaganak.
According to court documents filed in Anchorage District Court, Kaganak died from a suspected fentanyl overdose during the early morning hours of Dec. 2 at an apartment on Glacier Street. Witnesses told police the apartment’s resident, Tyrone Christopher McCrae, routinely provided narcotics to women in exchange for sex and had supplied the drugs Kaganak consumed before collapsing.
Investigators say after attempts to revive Kaganak failed, Ramos-Snedden—McCrae’s longtime girlfriend—assisted in concealing her death. Police allege Ramos-Snedden backed a Cadillac Escalade up to the apartment so McCrae could load Kaganak’s body, which was wrapped in a blanket, into the back. The pair then drove approximately five miles to the Basher Trailhead, where McCrae dumped Kaganak’s remains down an embankment before Ramos-Snedden drove the vehicle away, court documents state…