ktuu.com wrote:ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A memorial service was held Thursday night for an itinerant teacher most likely killed by wolves.

An autopsy conducted Thursday shows that wolves likely killed 32-year-old Candice Berner in the southwest Alaska village of Chignik Lake, according to the Alaska State Troopers.

Village residents found Berner's body a short distance from town on Monday.

Multiple injuries due to animal mauling caused Berner's death, trooper Col. Audie Holloway said, referencing a report from the state medical examiner's office.

Information from state biologists and village residents, along with the autopsy results, point to wolves as the likely killer, according to a trooper press release.

"We're confident this is a wolf attack," Holloway said in an interview Thursday. "To be extremely precise, it's an animal attack of some sort. But we think that all probability and the preponderance of all the information we have is that it was wolves." Read more...