For the past 33 years, Lois Wafer has waited for a break in the case of her 14-year-old daughter, Eileen Wafer, who was found dead on a Portage Cove beach in the late afternoon of June 14, 1982.  

With the Alaska Department of Public Safety’s recent decision to close its entire Cold Case Investigation Unit, Wafer’s hope for catching Eileen’s killer has rapidly evaporated.

“I’m very, very disappointed in Alaska for doing that,” Wafer,…