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A Time to Kill on ID: What happened to public health nurse Mindy Schloss?

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John Parsons

Published Jan 15, 2026

Mindy Schloss, a Harbor, Gold country based general wellbeing medical caretaker who worked in the city of Fairbanks, disappeared from her home in August 2007. Her breaking down remains were found more than a month after the fact in a lush region, after which a post-mortem examination affirmed that she was lethally shot in the head.

An ensuing examination drove specialists to one of her neighbors, Joshua “Josh” Swim, an ex-convict with a criminal history. Criminal investigators would later observe that Schloss was not the suspect’s most memorable casualty and that they could have a likely chronic executioner on their hands.

An Opportunity to Kill on ID is scheduled to return to Mindy Schloss’ case in a forthcoming episode, named Fragrance of an Executioner, this Thursday, Walk 2, 2023. The rundown states:

“After a general wellbeing medical caretaker evaporates suddenly, Mooring, Gold country, examiners get a significant break from her panicked neighbor; the race is on to recuperate proof before it vanishes under The Frozen North’s colder time of year snow.”
The episode will air on the channel at 9 pm ET.

Specialists found Mindy Schloss’ home in complete confusion after she vanished

General wellbeing medical caretaker Mindy Schloss, 52, was working in an oppressed local area in The Frozen North as a mental medical caretaker expert when she disappeared in August 2007. She was dwelling in Safe haven and taking changes in Fairbanks. One of Schloss’ companions called the Harbor police division on August 7 when she neglected to appear for work.

At the point when police showed up at her home to direct an examination, they found one of Schloss’ companions who was house-sitting. The companion guaranteed that the house was in finished disorder and “only not in a state Mindy would have left when she went to work.”

Her vehicle was likewise absent from the house, something her companion guaranteed Schloss could never do since leaving was excessively exorbitant at the air terminal.

Investigators smelled a rat, at first thinking her drawn out sweetheart, Robert Conway. He was before long excused as a suspect after he gave a strong vindication. They likewise addressed Mindy Schloss’ neighbors and discovered that she had regular spats with her direct nearby neighbors, who held a standing for being rambunctious and tossing clearly parties.

Also, her ledger showed action after she was most recently seen alive on August 3. Specialists found that two $500 cash withdrawals had been made and keeping in mind that looking at CCTV film from the ATMs, found that a strange man had been making the exchanges.

Schloss’ vehicle was additionally spotted at the air terminal, which was then sent in for DNA testing.

Mindy Schloss’ body was found in a lush region, prompting the capture and conviction of Joshua Swim

One of Mindy Schloss’ neighbors in the long run approached, illuminating analysts about another neighbor named Joshua Swim who had been acting dubiously during the missing individual’s examination.

Swim was once blamed for killing a 33-year-elderly person named Della Earthy colored who was cudgeled to death in 2000. Yet, the blamed was cleared for the homicide accusation in those days.

As per an Oxygen report, FBI specialist Jolene Goeden expressed:

However, on September 13, 2007, a metropolitan laborer accomplishing site looking over work in the forest ran over a decaying body in the forest close to Knik Goose Straight Street, around five miles from Wasilla, The Frozen North, and was later decidedly distinguished as 52-year-old Schloss.
She was shot toward the rear of the head and her body was somewhat scorched. Different signs showed that she was choked and bound with zip ties.

DNA results from Schloss’ vehicle came in and were a match to Swim’s. His telephone was likewise recuperated and comprised of an image of a firearm like the one used to kill the person in question.

Swim was accused of numerous state and government charges, such as carjacking, robbery, and bank extortion, and ultimately entered a request arrangement to keep away from capital punishment. He likewise admitted to the homicide of Della Brown.

Sources express that Joshua Swim later confessed to the killing of three different men.