Terrence ‘Terry’ Brisk was shot and killed on 7 November 2016 with his own rifle while hunting in Belle Prairie Township, Morrison County, Mn.

Terrence Brisk Homicide Case Facts:  – 24 March 2022
• Terrence “Terry” Brisk was found deceased on November 7, 2016, on wooded property in Belle
Prairie Township, northwest of the intersection of Hawthorne Road and Jewel Road northeast of
Little Falls. Brisk was deer hunting on his parent’s property at the time of incident.

• Brisk was killed from a gunshot wound. The investigation revealed that Brisk was killed by his
own weapon, which was a Winchester Model AE 30-30, lever action rifle.

• The incident occurred between 2:15pm and 4:30pm. The Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s
Office ruled the manner of death a homicide.

• Based on evidence located at the scene, investigators believe that the suspect was in close
proximity to Brisk when he was killed.

• Investigators have learned throughout the investigation that a blue van may be a vehicle of
interest in this case.

• There is a $30,000 reward for any information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the
person responsible for Brisk’s murder.

We continue to ask for the public’s assistance in this case. Maybe it was something you
observed, something you heard, or maybe it’s a vehicle or person you observed in the area on
the date of the incident. Whatever information you may have about this case, we want to hear
from you. If you have any information on the blue van that may have been in the area at the
time of the incident, we would like to hear from you as well.

If you have any information related to this case, please contact the Morrison County Sheriff’s
Office at (320) 632-9233 or call Crime Stoppers by calling toll free at 1-800-222-TIPS [8477]. If
you want to make a report and stay anonymous, you can contact Crime Stoppers of Minnesota
at their website CrimeStoppersMN; or you can install a tip APP on any smartphone; or
send a text message beginning with TIP674 to CRIMES [274637]. All contact with Crime Stoppers
is anonymous and you may qualify for an award if information leads to an arrest.

From the Morrison County Sheriff

Here my post from 2020 on Terry’s murder: Terry Brisk

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Police identify 17-year-old stabbing victim
Star Tribune Tuesday 27 August 1985

The mutilated body of a girl found Saturday in a drainage ditch in East Bethel was identified Monday as that of Barbara Sue Frost, a 17-year-old high school dropout who friends said had alcohol problems.

Anoka County sheriffs Investigators said yesterday that they suspect that the killer is the person who picked Frost up while she was hitchhiking Friday night. That person is still being sought.

Frost had been stabbed at least 20 times in the chest and other upper portions of her body, said Dr. Joseph
coroner. He said that she died of her stab wounds, that there was no sign of a struggle where her body was found and that she had not been sexually abused.

The body appears to have been moved to the drainage ditch after the slaying, Investigators in the Anoka County Sheriff’s Department said. On the basis of the autopsy reports, they estimated that she was killed late Friday night or early Saturday morning [24 August 1985]. The fully clothed body was discovered face down in the ditch at 2:23 p.m. north of County Rd. 22 and east of Hwy. 65 by a farmer who had been mowing tall grass.

We think she was hitchhiking south on Hwy. 65 and that whoever killed her had to know the area pretty well, knew the roads, because there’s not a lot of traffic in that area,” said Capt. Bill Hoogestraat of the Anoka County sheriffs major crimes.

No arrests have been made, but Hoogestraat said investigators were confident of several leads. One of the problems hampering investigators is that the rain Saturday morning left few tire tracks at the scene.

In the last several months Frost had been living intermittently at a house in Blaine with three men who were recovering alcoholics. She attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings with them in Fridley.

“She was a ‘runner’ and a troubled young lady who was chemically dependent, but lately she’d been working hard trying to stay sober,” said Ed Nelson, one of the men at the house.

You could see a lot of pain and hurt in that girl’s eyes, he said. “Somebody was saying the other day that they thought one of our best meetings was two weeks ago when she led a discussion group on how people can’t run away from their problems and how she, since she knew she had a long history of running away from problems, had finally learned there were no quick solutions, that you had to ride it out.

“I always thought that was pretty good thought for a person who was 17 years old and in trouble. She was no dummy, that’s for sure.”

Nelson said he last saw her a week ago and described her as “upbeat, real happy.” partly because she mentioned she was going to be getting a new job and would no longer have to earn money as a maid in Downtown Minneapolis.

Frost told Nelson that her father had died about five years ago, he said, and that the death had caused her severe emotional problems. Her mother, Carol Patterson [passed away 2 June 2008] lives in Minneapolis.

Patricia Carlson, one of Frost’s two sisters, said she didn’t know Frost’s whereabouts Friday.

“My sister never deserved this, no-body deserves what happened to her,” Patterson said. She said many of her sister’s problems started after their father’s death.

When he died, I think a part of her died too. They were very close.” For at least the last six months she had been attending the sobriety meetings and was recently working toward getting her general education diploma, said Nelson. Frost dropped out of St. Francis High School in 1982, said a school spokesman.

“Hitchhiking was the main way she got herself around, and despite all our warnings not to do it, she felt it necessary to do it, and she just ran into the wrong, crazy person and that was it,” said Nelson. “We never ran together, we just tried to stay sober together and support each other.”

Police get description of suspect in slaying of girl found in ditch
Star tribune Friday 30 August 1985

Anoka County sheriff’s investigators said Thursday that they have a description of a suspect in last weekend’s slaying of a 17-year-old girl from St. Francis, Minn.

Officials yesterday released a sketch of the suspect drawn from a description received from a gas station attendant, who said he had seen the girl in the gas station with the man the night before her body was found.

The body of Barbara Sue Frost was found in a drainage ditch in East Bethel Saturday afternoon by a farmer who was mowing tall grass. She had been stabbed more than 20 times in the chest and upper body, but had not been sexually assaulted. The murder weapon penetrated her heart several times from the front and the back, officials said.

Authorities are seeking a white man, between 35 and 40 years old, about 6-foot-3 or 6-foot-4 with a trim build and short, neat, sandy-colored hair parted on the left. The man also had a noticeable cleft chin, a prominent Adam’s apple and a small bump on the bridge of his nose that might indicate it had once been broken. He was driving a tan, late model Volvo station wagon with Minnesota license plates beginning with the letters NOX or NOZ. He also was wearing a gold watch with diamonds or similar stones on the face. Anoka County Undersheriff Donald Dwyer said that he had sent the license information to the state highway department but that the department had not identified a specific car yesterday afternoon.

Dwyer said investigators received the information from an attendant at a gas station at 45th and Lyndale Ave. N, in Minneapolis. The attendant told authorities that he knew the girl and that he saw her with the man in the gas station about 11:30 p.m. Friday.

Dwyer also said that the girl called one of the men with whom she lived in Blaine at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday and that there was party noise in the background. She did not indicate that she was in trouble, investigators said, and the men with whom she shared the house have been cleared as suspects.

Investigators believe the suspect picked up Frost while she was hitchhiking south on Hwy. 65.

Frost was an “inveterate hitchhiker” who also carried a knife because, she said, drivers had tried to take advantage of her, Dwyer said.

Authorities have not found the knife.

Officials ask that people with information on the crime or the suspect call the Anoka County major crime…

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The victim, 27 year old Toni Lanae [Talarico] Monette, had been working alone as a clerk at the 7-11 store located on Silver Lake Road in Mounds View, MN on March 25, 1981. In the early morning hours, a customer entered the store and discovered the victim’s body. Toni had been violently attacked and stabbed numerous times, resulting in her death. The victim left behind two young children at the time of the homicide.

If you have any information regarding this or other cold cases in Minnesota-please contact the BCA Tip Line or the Mounds View Police Department at the contact information below.

Tip Line 763.717.4061
BCA Tip Line 1.877.996.6222
bca.coldcase@state.mn.us
Investigator Jeremy Hellpap
(763) 717-4096

From: The Minneapolis Star 2 April 1981
By DAVE HAGE
The Minneapolis Star

Toni Monette wasn’t scheduled to work the night she was slain. Management at the 7-Eleven store at 7295 Silver Lake Road in Mounds View had hired another cashier, and protocol says the rookie works the 11 pm to 7 am shift. But Monette substituted for the newcomer that night, and wound up on the floor with 10 stab wounds.

Mounds View reacted with dismay this week to its first slaying in years. It occurred early March 25, 1981.
Mounds View Police, aided by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, haven’t arrested anyone or established a motive for the killing of the 26-year-old cashier. Police said no money was taken from the store and there was no sign of sexual assault.

Police checked the store about 2:30 am, the cash register tape indicated a sale at 3:10 am and a customer found Monette dead at 4:30 am. The apparent lack of motive has left neighbors a little nervous.

“I just wonder if there’s this thing wandering around our neighborhood, thinking, ‘Hmmm, I’ll try Mounds View for a while,'” said a woman who lives half a block away on Ramsey County Road H2. “I wasn’t too happy walking home from choir practice at Messiah Lutheran church Wednesday night. I made sure my husband was watching for me.

Two other neighbors said they aren’t on edge, but that they’re making extra sure that doors are locked before they go to bed.

“It’s strange to think it happened just down the street, yet we never heard or saw a thing,” said another neighbor. “But then, this is a neighborhood of early risers, and we go to bed early.” The neighborhood around Silver Lake Road and Ramsey County Road H2 is somewhat remote there’s a big wooded area on one corner, a few modest houses and double bungalows on the others. No sidewalks-just four long, straight roads leading away from the intersection.

The store’s manager, who asked not to be named, said the store has taken new precautions, but added, “I’m not sure I’d want to see the specifics in print.” Since the slaying, one employee has quit and the store has eliminated the 11 pm to 7 am shift because no one will work it, said Mike McDermott, 7-Eleven zone manager for Minnesota.

McDermott said there had been no other violent incidents at the store..
It was normal for an employee to work the late shift alone, the store manager said, because there is too little night business to justify two employees.

A cashier at a Tom Thumb store two blocks away on Knollwood Avenue said the killing made her nervous.
“It makes you more aware, had been scared before without realizing it. Now I realize it. I think it’d be crazy working alone at night. I’m hardly ever alone.

“I was running the store last Sunday (four days after the killing), and one time when there weren’t any customers, I was in the back doing some quick work.

When I got back up to the counter, there was a woman here who was just frantic. She kept saying, ‘Where were you? Where were you?’

Monette, who held a business degree from St. Theresa’s College in Winona, lived with her parents at [removed] S. 28th Ave., Minneapolis, and had worked at the store only since Feb. 11. But the manager said she knew Monette well.

“She worked for me. It doesn’t take long to get to know someone when you work closely with them. She was as nice a person as you could ask for, and she was on her way up.” On the counter was a coffee can labeled “Toni Monette Memorial Fund.”

“I’m not really scared to work here now I just miss her,” the manager added. “It’s kind of spooky coming in and not seeing her face.”

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Deana was found in a ditch in 20 May 1989 south of Kellogg in Wabasha County. Deana’s remains were identified March 2009, when a neighbor thought a cold case playing card looked like Deana. DNA was used from a sister of Deana and was a match!

PRESS RELEASE
March 16, 2009

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension announces major break in 1989 Wabasha County Jane Doe – COLD CASE.

For the first time, the Minnesota Cold Case Playing Cards initiative, which began in October 2008, has played a role in solving a case.

The victim was located May 20, 1989 south of Kellogg, Wabasha County, Minnesota. She was identified as Deana Marie Patnode, 23, of Inver Grove Heights in March 2009 via DNA after the Minnesota BCA received a tip from an image on a card in a deck of MN Cold Case Playing Cards that were released in October 2008. The tipster said he thought the image on the playing card looked similar to his neighbor who had disappeared in the 1980s. Authorities were able to match DNA of Patnode after locating a family member.

Patnode was last seen leaving the Buck Board bar on Concord Boulevard with a friend in South St. Paul on October 26, 1982. Her remains were found almost seven years later.

THIS CASE IS NOW AN ACTIVE HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION.
Any tips should be phoned in to the Wabasha County Sheriff’s Department
Phone: (651) 565-3361 or you can submit a tip to crime stoppers

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Here is the press release:

Sheriff Kyle A. Burton
Chief Deputy Aaron Evenson

Mille Lacs County

For Immediate Release
Fatal pedestrian hit and run

11/14/2023
Kathio Township, Mille Lacs County On 11/13/2023 at approximately 4:50 pm, a 911 call was received by the Mille Lacs County Sheriff’s Office regarding a pedestrian that had been struck near 400849 Hwy 169. Deputies, Mille Lacs Health System EMS, State Patrol and Onamia Fire responded to the scene. Once on scene, they determined this to be a fatality and the victim has been identified as Dr. Cathy Donovan, age 56 of Onamia, MN.

It appears from the early stages of the investigation that Dr. Donovan was struck and killed while walking her dogs in the area near her home. One of the dogs is deceased and the other survived. We do not have a description of the vehicle involved at this time and are seeking the public’s help. The vehicle will likely have heavy front-end damage. We are asking for anyone who knows anything about this to contact us through our tip line at 320-983-8346 or you can provide information anonymously through Crime Stoppers.

Dr. Donovan was a long time provider at Mille Lacs Health System in Onamia and she will be deeply
missed. Our hearts and prayers go out to her family and co-workers during this difficult time.

A $10k reward is being offered.

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More info on Aniya Allen murder

On 17 May 2021, 6-year-old Aniya Allen and her mother had just left a McDonald’s when at the intersection of N. 36th and Penn Av. shots from what is believed between two gangs rung out and hit Aniya. Aniya mom, Antrice Sease drove her directly to the Hennepin County Medical Center. Aniya was in critical condition.  Sadly Aniya succumb to her injuries on 19 May 2021.

Anyone with information related to these case is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at crimesto​ppersmn.org or the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension at 877-996-6222 or bca.tips@state.mn.us.​​

Patrick Dembley arrested charged and guilty of shooting man, same gun that killed Aniya.

The gun that killed Aniya, was also used in a shooting that paralyzed a 19-year-old man who was shot in his car while sitting at Mayslack’s bar in Northeast Minneapolis. Camera’s in the area lead to the arrest of Patrick Dembley. Dembley was arrested and released on $80k bail. He is from Maple Grove. Dembley has admitted to carrying a gun at a Northeast Minneapolis bar in 2021 when he shot and injured a man. Police say at least one casing from the same weapon was found in the area where Aniya Allen was killed only days later. In 2022, Dembley was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for seriously injuring the man.

Also happening!  The large pink banner you see in the photo below was stolen from the Aniya’s corner N Penn Ave and   N 36th Ave around 19 April 2024.  If you have any information please alert Aniya’s Facebook page

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Vanessa was shot three times, one in each arm and one in her chest while she was watching street takeovers at North Second street and North 22nd Avenue, Minneapolis. Vanessa and her cousins were in the front row watching street racing, burnouts and donuts by “Hot Rodders”.  A shooting broke out, and if you watch any videos online, a shooting always seems to breakout.  Vanessa and her cousins thought it was fireworks then realized it was gun shots.  They ran back to their vehicle and that’s when she told her cousins she was shot.  They rushed her to the hospital where she passed away.

News Release
MPD Responds to Two Homicides Overnight
June 5, 2021 (MINNEAPOLIS) During the early morning hours of Sunday morning, Minneapolis Police responded to a report of two shootings that ended up in the death of the victims.

At 1:37 am, Minneapolis Police were notified that a gunshot wound victim had shown up at North Memorial Medical Center. Officers responded to the hospital to speak to the victim. Upon arrival, they were advised that the adult female victim had succumbed to her injuries.

Preliminary investigation lead homicide detectives to the 2200 block of N 2nd Street. At that location they located a scene. The scene was processed, and evidence was collected.

The GO number associated with the case on North 2nd Street is 21-121535.

Anyone with information in this case is encouraged to call CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Tips may be submitted electronically at CrimeStoppersMN. All Tips are anonymous and persons providing information leading to an arrest and conviction may be eligible for a financial reward.
# # #. Nicholas Enger was shot minutes later at a different location

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Here is the news release from MPD:

News Release
MPD Responds to Two Homicides Overnight
June 5, 2021 (MINNEAPOLIS) During the early morning hours of Sunday morning, Minneapolis Police responded to a report of two shootings that ended up in the death of the victims.

At 1:37 am, Minneapolis Police were notified that a gunshot wound victim had shown up at North Memorial Medical Center. Officers responded to the hospital to speak to the victim. Upon arrival, they were advised that the adult female victim had succumbed to her injuries.

Preliminary investigation lead homicide detectives to the 2200 block of N 2nd Street. At that location they located a scene. The scene was processed, and evidence was collected. [Vanessa Jensen shooting coming up]

At 1:48 am, Minneapolis Police responded to the area of East Lake Street under the bridge that goes over Hiawatha on a report of a person shot. Officers arrived and located an adult male suffering from a gunshot wound.

Officers performed CPR and wound management until his care was turned over to paramedics. He was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center in grave condition by paramedics. Officers learned that the victim died a short time after arriving at the hospital.

Homicide investigators arrived at the scene and assisted patrol officers in the speaking with people. Detectives learned that a group of people in cars took over the portion of the East Lake Street where Hiawatha passes over it. The people in the cars were driving recklessly and spinning around in their cars causing damage to the roadway when two of the individuals got into a dispute. The two began to shoot at one another. A stray bullet struck an adult male who had pulled over to watch these vehicles. The victim was outside of his car when he was struck by the bullet.

Crime Lab personnel responded to document the scene and collect evidence.

The Medical Examiner will provide the identity of the victims along with the nature and cause of death in each of these cases.

The GO number associated with the case on North 2nd Street is 21-121535. The GO number assigned to the case on East Lake Street is 21-121548.

Anyone with information in either case is encouraged to call CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Tips may be submitted electronically at CrimeStoppersMN. All Tips are anonymous and persons providing information leading to an arrest and conviction may be eligible for a financial reward.
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I’ve never personally seen a street takeover but have watched many videos on them.  Here is a video on how the street takeovers go down:

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According to Eden’s death certificate: cause of death – ASPHYXIA WITH MULTIPLE TRAUMATIC INJURIES, MANUAL STRANGULATION WITH BLUNT AND SHARP FORCE TRAUMA, ASSAULT

Eden was born in Camden New Jersey 18 February 1961.

Details: On September 29, 1992 the body of Eden Young was discovered in Dellwood, Washington County, MN. Eden died as a result of blunt force trauma. She was last seen alive earlier that morning, 15 miles away in St. Paul, MN.

If you have any information regarding this case, please contact the MN BCA Tip Line at 877-996-6222.

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Details: Jonathan Easterling’s body was found at Rice Lake Park in Shakopee on November 24, 2001. Jonathan died as a result of fatal gunshot wounds to the head. Easterling was last seen one day prior to his death as he entered a vehicle with an unidentified driver.
If you have any information regarding this case, please contact the MN BCA tip line at 877-996-6222.

Obituary:

Easterling Jonathan Lee, age 17, passed away on November 23, 2001. He is survived by his parents, Oraetta & Byron West; siblings, Angelica Easterling, Cyonna West, Byron West Jr; grandparents, Bernice, Herman Easterling, Grant & Ruthelle West; a host of cousins and friends. Funeral service Friday, 3 PM at Kwanzaa Community Church, 2100 Emerson Ave. N., Mpls. Jonathan was a loving and giving son and brother, who will be missed. Arr. by Estes Funeral Chapel

Published on November 29, 2001

Nov. 30, 2001: Arrest made in teen’s death

Victim is St. Paul boy, 17; motive remains unclear
By JIM ADAMS Star Tribune

Authorities have identified the homicide victim found Saturday in Shakopee as a St. Paul teenager who had left home a day earlier with a man.

Jonathan Easterling, 17, apparently died from head injuries, said Dr. Lindsey Thomas, head of the Minnesota Regional Coroner’s Office in Hastings.

Shakopee Deputy Police Chief Jerry Poole said that a suspect has been arrested and that the investigation continues. He said that no weapon was recovered and that the motive is still unclear.

Easterling’s family last saw him the morning of Nov. 23, when he talked with a man on the phone and then left in a car with him, said his mother, Oraetta West. She said she doesn’t know why her son would have gone to Shakopee, where police found his body the next morning in a ditch.

His sister, Angelica Easterling, 16, said he seemed uncertain while waiting to be picked up about whether he should go with the man. She said the family called hospitals and authorities trying to find him Sunday, but didn’t know what happened until detectives came to their East Side house Monday evening. He didn’t have identification when he was found.

“He was very unselfish. He was the type of kid if another kid was being bullied, he would try to protect that kid,” West said. Her son, the oldest of four siblings, liked sketching cars and playing clarinet, she said. He wasn’t attending school and was searching for what he wanted to do in life, she said.

Angelica Easterling said her brother was full of life and sensitive to others’ feelings. “He could make bad situations funny,” she said. He also did impersonations of family members, including his mother, “that had me cracked up,” his mom recalled.
“He had a free spirit.”

Berneice Easterling, who lived with the family this year, said her grandson was always helpful. “Sometimes he would come in late and say, `Grandma, is there anything you want?’ ” she said. “He was very caring.”

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Peggy died from being struck on the head.

Murder Minnesota teen remains unsolved after 50 years
CNHINEWS

By Edie Schmierbach CNHI News Service Sep 22, 2019 Updated Sep 26, 2019

NORTH MANKATO — Fifty years ago this month, a North Mankato teen’s body was found in a corn field north of the city.

Peggy Broas disappeared after leaving her parents’ home at 238 Wheeler Ave. on Aug. 9, 1969. Her body was found on Sept. 11.

Throughout five decades, investigators have continued seeking information that would lead them to discover who ended the 17-year-old’s life.

“That case remains unsolved, unfortunately,” Nicollet County Chief Deputy Karl Jensen said.

“The problem is there is no physical evidence,” said Marc T. Chadderdon, criminal investigator with the Nicollet County Sheriff’s Office.

Unlike today’s criminal investigations, in 1969 DNA was not being collected and crime scenes were photographed by individuals not trained in law enforcement procedures, he said.

Events leading up to the murder were documented in 1969.

Peggy’s parents had last seen her on a Saturday afternoon as she left for a babysitting job in Mankato. They’d expected her to be back Sunday morning. She wasn’t, so the family assumed she was still working and went ahead with plans to go to St. James.

They suspected something was wrong when she still hadn’t returned Sunday night. Police investigated, receiving reports she had been seen in Mankato and at the Nicollet County Fair in St. Peter that Sunday. Those initial reports weren’t confirmed.

Investigators determined Peggy died as the result of being struck on the head.

The remains of another girl, 14-year-old Sandra Meinke of Webster, had been found in a wooded area north of Montgomery, Minnesota, — on the same day Peggy’s body was found.

The Meinke case was later solved and a 39-year-old Prior Lake man, James H. Johnson, was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Investigators have never been able to link Johnson to the murder of Peggy Broas.

“They did a lot of leg work on that one, and there was no connection,” Jensen said.

“It was such a horrible coincidence, two rural teens murdered at about the same time,” Chadderdon said.

Jensen was only 3 years old in 1969, but he remembers hearing his father, Richard Jensen, describe the Broas case.

The elder Jensen was a deputy who was in the corn field off Nicollet County Road 13, near what is now North Mankato’s Benson Park, the day Peggy’s body was found.

“He talked about it over the years … He went to his grave wanting to have the case solved,” Karl Jensen told a Free Press reporter during an interview in November 2008 about an idea he had to help solve the case and give hope to the survivors.

He knew of a deck of playing cards being designed through the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and Department of Corrections. Cards featuring photos and information about cold-case victims, who at that time included Jacob Wetterling, comprised the decks intended for delivery to the hands of prison and jail inmates throughout the state.

Investigators hoped card-game conversations would provide leads they could track down.

A similar effort in Florida already had solved two cold cases there.

Karl Jensen, who was an investigator before he was named chief deputy in 2003, had contacted Lynn Broas about including his sister’s photo on a card in a Minnesota-specific deck.

“We had quite a conversation,” Lynn told The Free Press in 2008. “We talked about how a lot of time had passed and that people might want to clear their conscience.”

Peggy’s card, the nine of spades, includes her picture, the day she was last seen alive, the day her body was found and that she died as a result of blunt force trauma.

Peggy’s father W.E. Broas died in 2002. Her mother Arvellis Brummund died in 2018.

Chadderdon, along with a Bureau of Criminal Affairs officer, decided in 2013 to conduct re-interviews of surviving family members and friends of the murdered teen.

“I was surprised how much people remembered about Peggy,” Chadderdon said.

Her yearbook picture and a newspaper clipping about her death are included on a website created by reunion organizers for Mankato High School Class of 1969’s website.

Nicollet County Sheriff’s Office is well aware of this year’s milestone anniversary of the North Mankato teen’s unsolved murder, Jensen said. He’s not given up on the hope someone’s memory will be jogged and a new detail will surface.

“We’ve been hoping to again put a spotlight on it,” Jensen said.

Anyone with information about Peggy’s death should contact Chadderdon at 934-7121 or the BCA tipline at 877-996-6222.

From the Mankato Free Press:

Murder of North Mankato Teen remains unsolved after 50 years

NORTH MANKATO — Fifty years ago this month, a North Mankato teen’s body was found in a corn field north of North Mankato.

Peggy Broas disappeared after leaving her parents’ home at 238 Wheeler Ave. on Aug. 9, 1969. Her body was found on Sept. 11.

Throughout five decades, investigators have continued seeking information that would lead them to discover who ended the 17-year-old’s life.

“That case remains unsolved, unfortunately,” Nicollet County Chief Deputy Karl Jensen said.

“The problem is there is no physical evidence,” said Marc T. Chadderdon, criminal investigator with the Nicollet County Sheriff’s Office.

Unlike today’s criminal investigations, in 1969 DNA was not being collected and crime scenes were photographed by individuals not trained in law enforcement procedures, he said.

Events leading up to the murder were documented in 1969.

Peggy’s parents had last seen her on a Saturday afternoon as she left for a babysitting job in Mankato. They’d expected her to be back Sunday morning. She wasn’t, so the family assumed she was still working and went ahead with plans to go to St. James.

They suspected something was wrong when she still hadn’t returned Sunday night. Police investigated, receiving reports she had been seen in Mankato and at the Nicollet County Fair in St. Peter that Sunday. Those initial reports weren’t confirmed.

Investigators determined Peggy died as the result of being struck on the head.

The remains of another girl, 14-year-old Sandra Meinke of Webster, had been found in a wooded area north of Montgomery — on the same day Peggy’s body was found.

The Meinke case was later solved and a 39-year-old Prior Lake man, James H. Johnson, was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Investigators have never been able to link Johnson to the murder of Peggy Broas.

“They did a lot of leg work on that one, and there was no connection,” Jensen said.

“It was such a horrible coincidence, two rural teens murdered at about the same time,” Chadderdon said.

Jensen was only 3 years old in 1969, but he remembers hearing his father, Richard Jensen, describe the Broas case.

The elder Jensen was a deputy who was in the corn field off Nicollet County Road 13, near what is now North Mankato’s Benson Park, the day Peggy’s body was found.

“He talked about it over the years … He went to his grave wanting to have the case solved,” Karl Jensen told a Free Press reporter during an interview in November 2008 about an idea he had to help solve the case and give hope to the survivors.

He knew of a deck of playing cards being designed through the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and Department of Corrections. Cards featuring photos and information about cold-case victims, who at that time included Jacob Wetterling, comprised the decks intended for delivery to the hands of prison and jail inmates throughout the state.

Investigators hoped card-game conversations would provide leads they could track down.

A similar effort in Florida already had solved two cold cases there.

Karl Jensen, who was an investigator before he was named chief deputy in 2003, had contacted Lynn Broas about including his sister’s photo on a card in a Minnesota-specific deck.

“We had quite a conversation,” Lynn told The Free Press in 2008. “We talked about how a lot of time had passed and that people might want to clear their conscience.”

Peggy’s card, the nine of spades, includes her picture, the day she was last seen alive, the day her body was found and that she died as a result of blunt force trauma.

Peggy’s father W.E. Broas died in 2002. Her mother Arvellis Brummund died in 2018.

Chadderdon, along with a Bureau of Criminal Affairs officer, decided in 2013 to conduct re-interviews of surviving family members and friends of the murdered teen.

“I was surprised how much people remembered about Peggy,” Chadderdon said.

Her yearbook picture and a newspaper clipping about her death are included on a website created by reunion organizers for Mankato High School Class of 1969’s website.

Nicollet County Sheriff’s Office is well aware of this year’s milestone anniversary of the North Mankato teen’s unsolved murder, Jensen said. He’s not given up on the hope someone’s memory will be jogged and a new detail will surface.

“We’ve been hoping to again put a spotlight on it,” Jensen said.

Anyone with information about Peggy’s death should contact Chadderdon at 934-7121 or the BCA tipline at 877-996-6222.

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Leona 83, was found stabbed, beaten and strangled on 5 October 1987, in her duplex residence at 328 Seventh St. South in Virginia.

Evidence collected at the scene was tested by the BCA’s Forensic Science Services, but did not yield any information that could definitively point to a suspect in the case, at the time.

While leads went cold, Virginia Police Department investigators and BCA agents continued to work the case, and as forensic testing capabilities improved, the BCA lab periodically reexamined the evidence.

Eventually, two fingerprints and a palm print were located on a bedroom door which was next to where Leona’s body was found. The prints belonged to rson, who would have been 16 at the time of the murder.

Cameron was arrested 4 June 2015.  Cameron was arraigned in St. Louis County District Court on a charge of intentional 2nd-degree murder.  Bail was set at $1m.

The defendant admitted that he was most likely drunk that night. He said he came down the back stairwell to Mrs. Maslowski’s residence, the door was not locked and he went into the kitchen looking for alcohol to drink. The woman confronted him. He thought she was moving toward a telephone. He said he punched her in the face, pushed her down, continued to hit her with an object from her residence and possibly choked her.

Cameron said he didn’t know if a knife was involved, but that all of her injuries would have been caused by him. He said she was lying on the floor when he left and that he didn’t steal anything. [Kare11]

Judge David Ackerson [who is now retired] threw out Cameron’s confession as inadmissible.

And with that, you can make your own conclusions!

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According to articles I’ve read, the community and Nieland family were stunned at the verdict.  Sadly both her parents have passed away and will never see Justice served.

According to the article below [From the Minneapolis Tribune (now the Star Tribune) August 8, 1982]

• Keep was 6 beers into the party when he and Karla arrived. She didn’t want to be there when Keep drank. Keep gave Karla the keys for the car.  When he wanted the keys, she refused to give them to him because he had been drinking.  After that she disappeared.  Keep was asking if anyone had seen Karla.

• Karla’s shirt, sweater and bra were discovered in a field on the farm’s property, near the location where Keep’s shirt and car keys were discovered.

• Roland Fiebranz, a friend of Keep stated after the party he saw Karla appear between the buildings.  He said he went to bed and left Karla with Keep.  Keep denied he reunited with Karla and someone hit him on the head.  He woke to find Karla dead in the car.  [Fiebranz took a polygraph to prove that he had nothing to do with Karla’s murder]

• Jackie Hermel, Fiebranz sister testified that she was sleeping with her husband and next Fiebranz.  She was woken by Keep pounding on the door at 4 am.  She said Keep tried to wake up Fiebranz yelling “Rocky, Rocky.  Wake up!  Wake up!  Karla’s dead!  Karla’s dead!  I killed her!”  She ran outside to see Keep drive off in Rocky’s car and found Karla in Keeps red mustang, dead!

There was a podcast that I wish I could listen to but it wiped off the internet and had no luck finding a backup anywhere: Uncracked, the Karla Jo Nieland Story. There were 3 episodes, all gone. There was also a website, but it’s deleted.

I have found this article on the trial:

Click the article to enlarge to make it easier to read!

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Details: On February 8, 1988 Dirk Van Slooten was found shot to death in the yard of his home in Crystal. The suspect/s fired numerous gunshots at the victim and then fled the scene, leaving Dirk in the snow.
If you have any information regarding this case, please contact the MN BCA Tip Line at 877-996-6222.

If you have any information on Dirk Van Slooten’s murder please contact me!

Michael Charles Beatty was the main suspect, but was never arrested or charged for the murder.
Beatty was federally charged with mail fraud, plead guilty and was sentenced to 41 months.

I did find this: Just very briefly, Your Honor. I would like to speak on behalf of the victims in this case. Obviously I don’t represent them, but I am their only voice in court. Mr. Short has on behalf of Mr. Beatty made a number of comments about the fact that [Beatty] used his loved ones’ monies for his venture–as if that were proof of good faith. I believe it is more proof of the fact that he also took advantage of his loved ones. They obviously do not feel that way.

But many of the people who were taken advantage of by Mr. Beatty were his friends, former friends, and these are people who, for example, include a family who had saved money for college, and their son was unable to go to college because of Mr. Beatty, there are people who had received a [sic] inheritance, a woman who had worked a whole lifetime barely making a salary, finally receiving an inheritance, and it was all taken by Mr. Beatty and Mr. Van Slooten, there are other people who lost all their retirement funds.

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Dewane Lamm was attacked with a sharp object and fatally shot during a robbery at Down in the Valley record store in Golden Valley at 7:30 pm on 16 November 1974. He was a customer in the store at the time; two additional victims were also injured during the incident.

If you have any information, please call the BCA Tipline at 1-877-996-6222.  Or email the BCA at bca.tips@state.mn.us.

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Cheri Prokop, 23 was found dead shortly after noon on 2 December 1988 by strangulation. Her 4-year-old daughter was found unharmed inside the apartment. Police believe two intruders, seen by the little girl, killed her mother.

When police arrived they found a ground level window removed. The apartment door was also unlocked. When police entered the apartment they found Cheryl’s daughter Katelyn unharmed. They found Cheryl upstairs in the hallway between the bedrooms strangled with the cord from her blinds.

None of the neighbors heard a thing.

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