Remains Found In Isanti County In 2003 Identified As Man Missing Since 1970
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Authorities in Isanti County say remains found nearly two decades ago have been identified as belonging to a man who was missing since the 1970s. New DNA profiling technology used...
View Article40 Years Later, 81-Year-Old Myrtle Cole’s Brutal Murder Remains Unsolved
KIMBALL, Minnesota (WCCO) — A brutal murder has haunted a tiny central Minnesota town for decades. Next week will mark 40 years since Myrtle Cole, who was 81 years old, died inside her Fairhaven home....
View ArticleVictim In Texas Cold Case Murder Was Teenager From Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Authorities in Texas say the victim in a 1980 cold case killing was identified as a 14-year-old girl from Minnesota. The Walker County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday that...
View Article‘A Tragedy With No Explanation’: Friends, Family Of St. Paul Man Brutally...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — Fifty years after their high school classmate was brutally killed, a group has come together to offer a $10,000 reward. Bob Hamburge died in August of 1971. The 19-year-old...
View Article$20K Reward Offered For Info On 2019 Homicide In Maple Grove Park
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The family of a man fatally shot in a Maple Grove park in 2019 is offering up to $20,000 for information that leads to a break in the case. The Maple Grove Police Department held a...
View ArticleBarry Whelpley Charged In 1972 Murder Of Julie Ann Hanson In Naperville,...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Police in Naperville, Illinois have arrested a Minnesota man in connection with the 1972 stabbing death of 15-year-old Julie Ann Hanson. Barry Lee Whelpley, a 76-year-old man from...
View Article2 Years Later, Homicide During Mankato Snowstorm Remains Unsolved
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Authorities are hoping you can help them solve a 2-year-old cold case. On this day in 2019, a 76-year-old woman called police to report someone was inside her house. Evelyn Adams...
View ArticleSheriff: Investigators ‘Close To Solving’ Fatal Attack Of Evelyn Adams, 76
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Investigators are reaching out for the public’s help to catch the man who fatally attacked 76-year-old Evelyn Adams in her rural Mankato home two years ago. The Blue Earth County...
View ArticleGary Herbst’s Wife, Son Charged In His Death Following Years Of Investigation
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Three years after the discovery of an Elk New Market man’s remains, his wife and son are now charged in his death. According to the Scott County Attorney’s Office, 62-year-old...
View Article4 Years On, The Hunt For Terry Brisk’s Killer Continues
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Four years after his death, investigators are still trying to figure out who killed hunter Terrence “Terry” Brisk. The Morrison County Sheriff’s office is asking for the public’s...
View ArticleSioux Falls Man, 79, Charged In 1974 Murder Of Mae Herman In Willmar
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A man who was questioned almost 50 years ago is a suspect for the brutal murder of a woman in Willmar. He is now charged with the 1974 crime. South Dakota man Algene Vossen, 79,...
View ArticleDNA Leads Police To Arrest Sioux Falls Man, 79, In 1974 Willmar Murder Of Mae...
WILLMAR, Minn. (AP) — Police on Thursday arrested a South Dakota man in a 1974 cold-case homicide in Minnesota after using DNA to link him to the killing 46 years ago. Authorities arrested the...
View ArticleIt’s Been 17 Years Since Mother Was Killed In Unsolved Hit-And-Run After...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A $12,500 reward is being offered for information in a 2003 unsolved hit-and-run case that killed a mother who had just dropped her son off for hockey in Maple Grove. According to...
View Article‘I Need Peace’: Family Makes Plea For Info In 2014 Hit-And-Run That Killed 2...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The case remains cold in a fatal hit-and-run that killed two men in western Wisconsin in 2014. On Friday, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office and St. Croix Tribal Police joined the...
View ArticleDNA Results In Murder Count For 1992 Stabbing Of St. Paul’s Annette Seymour
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the 1992 stabbing of a St. Paul woman whose partially clothed body was found near an old entrance to a...
View ArticleCold Case Revisited: Abduction Of Jacob Wetterling
By Caroline Lowe, WCCO-TV ST. JOSEPH, Minn. (WCCO) — As Caroline Lowe prepares to start a new adventure at KSBY in California, she’s spending the next couple of weeks revisiting cold cases she’s...
View ArticleCold Case Revisited: Missing Mail Carrier Harold Schroetter
By Caroline Lowe, WCCO-TV FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (WCCO) — As Caroline Lowe prepares to start a new adventure at KSBY in California, she’s spending the next couple of weeks revisiting cold cases she’s...
View ArticleMan Charged In Florida In Stillwater Woman’s 1984 Death
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Police in Florida say they solved the 35-year-old murder case of a Stillwater native. Pamela Cahanes, 25, was found strangled to death two days after graduating from the Navy...
View ArticleMetro Hockey Dad Charged With 1993 Murder Of Jeanne Ann Childs
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Investigators say forensic DNA testing and an online genealogy website helped Minneapolis police charge a metro hockey dad in a 25-year-old cold case murder. Fifty-two-year-old...
View ArticleBCA: Mpls. Woman’s Remains Identified After 4 Decades
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension officials will be holding a press conference Wednesday afternoon after decades-old remains were identified as a long-missing Minneapolis...
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