He Tried to Erase Them After Killing Them. Now, He Learns His Fate.

ANCHORAGE, AK – A former corrections officer out of Alaska will reportedly be spending the remainder of his life behind bars following a rendered sentence of a century and a half after he pleaded guilty to the 2022 murders of his wife and teenage daughter whom he pretended to be briefly to throw off investigators.

A June 3rd press release from the Alaska Department of Law announced the sentencing of Jalonni Blackshear for the April 2022 double murder of his 35-year-old wife, Raechyl, and their 14-year-old daughter, Jayla.

According to authorities, Jayla had told police on March 30th, 2022, that she had been the victim of sexual abuse, but reportedly wouldn’t tell authorities the name of the perpetrator, although investigators at the time suspected her father of the alleged sexual abuse. In response to the launched investigation, Blackshear had convinced his wife Raechyl to bring their daughter back to the Anchorage Police Department in an effort to recant her statement on April 3rd, 2022.

Following the April 2022 visit to the police precinct, Raechyl and Jayla were never seen alive again, with Blackshear fleeing the state on April 6th, 2022, while taking his deceased wife and daughter’s phones in a bid to impersonate Raechyl to her surviving children by texting “mommy missed them and to wish one a happy birthday,” according to officials.

Come April 15th, 2022, after Raechyl missed a scheduled medical appointment, police made their way over to the Blackshear residence where they found the two victims deceased in an upstairs bedroom from apparent gunshot wounds to the head.

On April 20th, 2022, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents, with assistance from the NYPD, located Blackshear at a Staten Island residence situated off of Harold Street via cell phone tracking, taking the suspect into custody that same day.

On January 27th, 2026, Blackshear pleaded guilty to two counts of murder, with Anchorage Superior Court Judge Garton later handing down a 150 year sentence on June 2nd, 2026. During Blackshear’s sentencing, Judge Garton emphasized the depraved nature of the offense, highlighting how the defendant subjected his late wife and daughter to years of physical and psychological abuse which culminated in their murders.