The Tanana Chiefs Conference has increased the amount of a reward for information about the 1997 murder that led to the convictions of four Alaska Native men.

TCC is offering up to $35,000 about the case. Native leaders say the evidence against the four men, who were convicted for the murder of John Hartman, is weak.

“We know there are people out there who have something to say,” Bill Oberly, the executive director for the Alaska Innocence Project, told The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. “The question is what is it going to take to have them come forward?”

TCC is working with the Alaska Innocence Project in hopes of gaining the men a new trial.

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TCC increases reward for information on killing of John Hartman (The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 4/17)

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