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Cloquet Man Sentenced For Cold Case Murder
DULUTH, Minn. (WCCO) – A Cloquet man pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder, witness tampering and aiding and abetting arson in connection to a cold case from 2000. According to the St. Louis...
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New DNA Technology Closes 17-Year-Old Cold Case
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – New science and a lot of hard work helped the Hennepin County Attorney’s office close a 17-year-old cold case. In 1996, an 82-year-old woman was raped near her north Minneapolis...
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BCA Project Identifies Victim In 20-Year-Old Cold Case
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – For the first time, the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension’s DNA lab matched unidentified remains to reopen a cold case. And the family of Pearline Walton finally has some answers to...
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Kansas Man Pleads Guilty To 1980 Stabbing Death
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A cold case revived by Minneapolis police with newly discovered DNA evidence has resulted in a guilty plea to a 1980 murder. Robert Skogstad has entered the plea in the fatal...
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Man In Cold Spring Arrested For 2009 Chicago Murder
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A man living in the area of Cold Spring, Minn. has been arrested in connection with a cold case murder that happened in Chicago in 2009. According to Chicago Police, 47-year-old...
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DNA Helps Crack 1998 Mpls. Double Murder Case
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — When 18-year-old Carrie Richter and 20-year-old Dustin Baity didn’t show up for a gathering on Christmas Day 1998, their families grew suspicious. The couple was later found...
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New DNA Evidence Helps Investigators Crack Cold Case
http://media.minneapolis.cbslocal.com/CBSMIN_20150207231458793AA.mp4 MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – It’s a murder mystery that’s been unsolved for more than 30 years. But on Saturday, police announced they’re...
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Duluth Police To Return Belongings Of 1981 Murder Victim
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — A retiring Duluth police lieutenant will return belongings of a teen murdered 34 years ago to her family as one of his last duties on the job. Earlier this year, Duluth police...
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What Do Prosecutors Need To Charge Heinrich In The Wetterling Case?
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Tire tracks and shoeprints: Investigators have old evidence in the Jacob Wetterling case that links person of interest Danny Heinrich to the area where Jacob was last seen....
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Man Who Escaped Abduction Holds Out Hope For Wetterling Break
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota man who was sexually assaulted months before the 1989 abduction of Jacob Wetterling said Monday that he hopes the identification of his suspected attacker helps...
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42 Years Later, Murder Of 2 Sisters In St. Cloud Still Unsolved
ST. CLOUD (WCCO) — The girls walked to a nearby store to buy school supplies and never came home. This Labor Day will mark 42 years since that morning that has haunted a St. Cloud family ever since....
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Inmate Charged With Cold Case Murder Of St. Paul Woman, 81
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A cold-case investigation has led to a prison inmate being charged Thursday with the 1987 murder of an 81-year-old woman, according to the Ramsey County Attorney’s office. Michael...
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Could A Serial Killer And Former Green Bay Packer Be Responsible For This...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — New DNA testing could link the unsolved murder of a Minnesota woman to a notorious serial killer. Mary Schlais planned to hitchhike from Minneapolis to an art show in Chicago in...
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Inmate Pleads Guilty To 1987 Murder
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — An inmate charged last year with the 1987 murder of an 81-year old woman pleaded guilty Friday morning. Michael Anthony Withers was charged with two counts of second-degree murder...
View ArticleSt. Paul Family Gets Closure In Grandmother’s Murder
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Minnesota family now has answers they thought they would never get. They finally know who killed their beloved grandmother. Lillian Kuller was strangled in her St. Paul home off...
View Article‘Not Long Enough’: Family Of 1987 Murder Victim Speaks Out After Sentencing
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Minnesota family says they finally have closure after a man was sentenced in the 31-year-old murder of their beloved grandmother. The murder of 81-year-old Lillian Kuller in her...
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Man Arrested In South Minneapolis Woman’s 1991 Murder
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 56-year-old South St. Paul man has been arrested in the death of a 20-year-old woman that happened one day shy of 27 years ago. The body of Belinda Thompson, of Minneapolis, was...
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‘We Owed It To Belinda’: Man Charged In 1991 Cold Case Murder
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minneapolis Police and the FBI have made an arrest in a 27-year-old murder case. Fifty-six-year-old Donald Jenkins was arrested in South St. Paul Tuesday. Belinda Thompson was...
View ArticleIowa Man Will Plead Not Guilty To Teen’s 1979 Slaying
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — The attorney for a man charged with the 1979 slaying of a Cedar Rapids high school student says his client will plead not guilty. Leon Spies is the attorney for Jerry Lynn...
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BCA: 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...
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 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...
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DNA 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...
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‘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 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 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 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 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...
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Gary 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...
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Sheriff: 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...
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2 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...
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Barry 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 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...
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‘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 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 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....
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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...
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