Trisha Marczak Taurinskas

2 months ago | duluthnewstribune.com | Trisha Marczak Taurinskas

STEARNS COUNTY — A Stearns County cold case is one step closer to a possible conclusion. Physical evidence retrieved from the scene of the 1974 slayings of Mary Reker, 15, and her sister, Susie Reker, 12, is undergoing cutting-edge DNA analysis — and investigators are hoping it leads to a resolution on a cold case that has plagued the department for more than 50 years.

2 months ago | inforum.com | Trisha Marczak Taurinskas

STEARNS COUNTY — A Stearns County cold case is one step closer to a possible conclusion. Physical evidence retrieved from the scene of the 1974 slayings of Mary Reker, 15, and her sister, Susie Reker, 12, is undergoing cutting-edge DNA analysis — and investigators are hoping it leads to a resolution on a cold case that has plagued the department for more than 50 years.

2 months ago | inforum.com | Trisha Marczak Taurinskas

ISANTI COUNTY — Donald Rindahl hadn’t been seen by friends and family members since he bid them farewell in the summer of 1970. The 22-year-old told family members he was off to California, yet their concern regarding his whereabouts quickly escalated when the Federal Bureau of Investigations began searching for Rindahl on an unrelated matter.

2 months ago | inforum.com | Trisha Marczak Taurinskas

MOUNDS VIEW, Minn. — Toni Monette was one month into her management training program at a Mounds View convenience store when her body was discovered by a co-worker in the early morning hours of on March 25, 1981. The 27-year-old was working the night shift when a co-worker went to clock in for the early morning shift at 4:30 a.m. That’s when the coworker saw Monette’s body in the 7-11’s back storage room. Monette had suffered at least 10 stab wounds — and was no longer breathing.

2 months ago | grandforksherald.com | Trisha Marczak Taurinskas

ROCK COUNTY, Minn. – Roughly 40 years have gone by, yet investigators are no closer to answers in the brutal slaying of 22-year-old Kelly Robinson, whose body was discovered floating in a pond near a Luverne, Minn. gravel pit. “I know very few details on the case,” Rock County Sheriff Evan Verbrugge told Forum News Service in a recent statement. “No one in this office was working here when this occurred." The reason Robinson’s case fell to the wayside isn’t entirely clear.