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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleBCA 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...
View ArticleKansas 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...
View ArticleMan 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...
View ArticleDNA 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleDuluth 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...
View ArticleWhat 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....
View ArticleMan 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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View Article42 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....
View ArticleInmate 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...
View ArticleCould 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...
View ArticleInmate 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...
View ArticleMan 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...
View Article‘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...
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