Cold Case: The Unidentified Bodies
By Caroline Lowe, WCCO-TV (WCCO) — The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has a new, first-of-its-kind program to track down missing persons. There are currently almost 800 missing adults in...
View ArticleCold Case: Playing Cards
By Caroline Lowe, WCCO-TV (WCCO) — Minnesota prisons will soon be flooded with 10,000 decks of playing cards. These are not typical cards but rather ones with the photos of 52 murder victims and...
View ArticleCold Case: Jodi Huisentruit
By Caroline Lowe, WCCO-TV (WCCO) — It’s been over 12 years since anchorwoman Jodi Huisentruit was abducted on her way to work at a Mason City, Iowa TV station. There has been no trace of the missing...
View ArticleCold Case: Marcus Potts
By Caroline Lowe, WCCO-TV MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — After being convicted of first-degree murder for the stabbing death of 11-year-old Marcus Potts in North Minneapolis in 1990, Eugene Fort received a...
View ArticleCold Case: Jacob Wetterling
By Caroline Lowe, WCCO-TV ST. JOSEPH (WCCO) — “No case in the Midwest has changed how we parent our kids” more than that of Jacob Wetterling, said Stearns County Sheriff John Sanner. It’s been almost...
View ArticleCold Case: Jeanine Warden
By Caroline Lowe, WCCO-TV LINWOOD TOWNSHIP (WCCO) — It’s been almost 32 years since 17-year-old Jeanine Warden was found almost dead in a ditch near her home in Linwood Township in rural Anoka County....
View ArticleCold Case: The 2 Susans In Highland Park
By Caroline Lowe, WCCO-TV (WCCO) – Susan Petersen (left) and Susan Rheineck (right) were both found strangled to death in Highland Park in St. Paul two years apart — Peterson in 1983, Rheineck in 1985....
View ArticleCold Case: Sledding Hit-And-Run
By Caroline Lowe, WCCO-TV ST. PAUL (WCCO) — UNSOLVED: It’s been nine years since a 7-year-old St. Paul boy died in a hit-and-run sledding accident. It was a snowy November afternoon when Long Thao and...
View ArticleCold Case: Kristin O’Connell
By Caroline Lowe, WCCO-TV (WCCO) — Kristin O’Connell was a college student when she was brutally murdered during a visit to upstate New York in the summer of 1985. She was studying hotel and restaurant...
View ArticleCold Case: Earl Lorenzo ‘Sco’ Farley
By Caroline Lowe, WCCO-TV (WCCO) — Earl Lorenzo Farley was killed in a hit-and-run accident in St. Paul on Oct. 7, 1999. He left behind four sons who were just 2 to 8 years old at the time. Farley,...
View ArticleCold Case: Raymond Wingo, Jr. Freeway Shooting
By Caroline Lowe, WCCO-TV MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Raymond Wingo, Jr. was gunned down on Feb. 19, 2004 while driving on Interstate 94 with a friend on his way home from a downtown Minneapolis nightclub....
View ArticleCold Case: Paul Fisher
By Caroline Lowe, WCCO-TV (WCCO) – It’s been almost 10 months since Paul Fisher’s girlfriend found him gunned down in a stairwell at their apartment building at 53rd Street and Chicago Avenue in south...
View ArticleCold Case: Jacob Wetterling
By Caroline Lowe, WCCO-TV ST. JOSEPH (WCCO) — Oct. 22 marks 20 years since 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was abducted at gunpoint near his home in rural St. Joseph, Minn. He has never been found. Jacob...
View ArticleCold Case: Harold Schroetter
By Caroline Lowe, WCCO-TV FALCON HEIGHTS (WCCO) — Harold Schroetter, 58, of Falcon Heights, Minn., went missing on Feb. 26, 2009. It’s been 18 months since Harold Schroetter went missing from his...
View ArticleNew DNA Science Could Help Solve New Brighton Cold Case
By James Schugel, WCCO-TV NEW BRIGHTON (WCCO) — Ten years ago, a couple stumbled upon a woman’s body in a Twin Cities park. Despite a plethora of leads, police still can’t say who she was or who...
View ArticleMaple Grove Police Hope To Solve Hit-And-Run Cold Case
By James Schugel, WCCO-TV MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Detectives in a Twin Cities suburb say that solving the case of who hit and killed a Minnesota hockey mom eight years ago all depends on the public’s...
View ArticleCrime Notes: Jodi Huisentruit’s Cold Case
By Caroline Lowe, WCCO-TV MASON CITY, Iowa (WCCO) — It has been more than 15 years since Mason City, Iowa anchorwoman Jodi Huisentruit vanished as she was heading to work at KIMT TV. Her photo is on my...
View ArticleCold Case Revisited: Mary Schlais Found Murdered In 1974
By Caroline Lowe, WCCO-TV MINNEAPOLIS (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 profiled...
View ArticleCold Case Revisited: Jeanine Warden’s Mysterious 1977 Death
By Caroline Lowe, WCCO-TV MINNEAPOLIS (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 profiled...
View ArticleCold Case Revisited: Possible Break In O’Connell’s Murder
By Caroline Lowe, WCCO-TV MINNEAPOLIS (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 profiled...
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