On 26 May 1999 around 11:38 pm, Kathlyn Poirier, 19 was abducted while working at DJ’s Expressway, a convenience store located near Interstate 35 on the outskirts of Moose Lake, Minnesota. The abduction was recorded on the store’s videotape surveillance system, but the poor resolution of the images on the video did not allow the police to determine the abductor’s identity with any certainty.
On 18 June 1999 after seeing a sketch of Katie’s abductor, one of Blom’s coworkers contacted the police to report Blom as a possible suspect based on his belief that Blom had behaved suspiciously during the week of the abduction.
Police located Blom after midnight on 20 June 1999 at a campground near Alexandria, Minnesota. The police questioned him about Katie’s abduction and he denied any involvement. He said he had been at his property near Moose Lake on 14 or 15 May 1999 and again on 12 June 1999. Blom said that on 26 May 1999 he left work early and went fishing on the Kettle River, a mile or two south of Sandstone, but claimed he was home in Richfield by between 7:00 and 8:00 pm.
On 20 June 1999, the police arrested Blom. At a police line-up the day following Blom’s arrest, a witness positively identified Blom as the man she had seen on the convenience store property the night of 26 May 1999.
Blom, a convicted sex offender, admitted to strangling her, and burning her body on his property near Moose Lake. Blom initially confessed, then later recanted the confession, claiming that solitary confinement and medications caused him to confess. Authorities determined the charred bone fragments and tooth that they recovered from his fire pit were Katie.
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Blom died Tuesday 10 January 2023 of natural causes. He lived to long! He was in prison for 23 years, and died at the age of 73.
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