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FAIRBANKS (API — The body of a man believed to be one of the seven persons killed by an Illinois drifter in the Manley Hot Springs area last month was found floating in the Tanana River on Saturday.The Alaska State Troopers identified the body as that of Dale R Madajski. 24, of Manley Hot Springs They said he had been shot in the headThe body was discovered about a mile downstream from Manley Hot Springs by two residents from the small mining community. Charles and Cindy PearsonMadajski, five other residents of Manley Hot Springs and a trapper living on the Kantishna River vanished on May 17 and are believed to have been killed by Michael A. Silka. 25. of Hoffman Estates, III.Silka himself was killed on May 19 in a shootout with troopers who swooped in by helicopter to arrest him after he was spotted on the Zitziana River aboutAlso killed was Trooper Troy Duncan of Fairbanks, who was among the troopers in the two helicopters that closed in on Silica At the time. Silka was in possession of a riverboat owned by Kantishna River trapper Fred Burk. 30. one of those still missingOthers still missing, all of Manley Hot Springs, are Larry Joe McVey. 38; Albert M Hagen Jr.. 27; Lyman M Klein, 38. Klein s wife. Joyce. 30. and the Kleins’ 2-year-old son. Marshall.At the time they vanished, troopers were seeking Silka for questioning in the disappearance of 34-year-old Roger F Culp from his Fairbanks-area cabin on April 28 The ashes of Silka. meanwhile, were buried Friday alongside 650 other military veterans at the National Cemetery in Sitka.Silka's remains were mailed to Silkafrom Fairbanks and picked up at the post office Friday morning by Marv Krause, director of the veterans' cemetery.Krause said Silka's father had requested that his son's remains be buried at the military cemetery Silka was an Army veteranAnybody who is honorably discharged in any of the services, no matter what he does between the time of his discharge and his death, can be buried in a military cemetery' at government expense. Krause saidThey are treated no different, be they man or woman, black or white, he said He said Silka's grave will be marked exactly like the graves of the other veterans buried at the cemeteryAn autopsy performed by Anchorage pathologist Michael Props! found that Silka died from five gunshot wounds Propat said he found no trace of drugs or alcohol in Silka's bloodManley Victim is Found25 miles from Manley Hot Springs
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Daily Sitka Sentinel
Sitka, Alaska, US
Mon, Jun 11, 1984
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