Well I was waiting to hear when Carbo was going to trial, and it didn’t make the big news.  Apparently they had the trial and he was found guilty of murdering Nancy Jane Daugherty in 1986.

1. By Order dated August 5, 2022, the Court denied Defendant’s request to present alternate perpetrator evidence.
2. During trial, Defendant offered Exhibit 206, which the Court received into evidence with the redaction of Section V in its entirety. The Court received Exhibit 226 as a proffer which is the unredacted copy of Exhibit 206.
3. In pertinent part, proffer Exhibit 226 states, “[t]he 4 questioned pubic hairs (panties item 6, jeans item 7, blue sheet item 8, rug item 9 – Daugherty) are “macroscopically and microscopically – alike” Brian W. Evenson (know pubic hair item 74A), therefore, the conclusion is that Evenson qualifies as a source.”
4. Based on this excluded evidence, the Defense renewed its motion to admit alternate perpetrator evidence.

Carbo arrested

Michael Carbo was charged with intentional second degree murder in a 1986 cold case in Minnesota!  He was arrested on 29 July 2020 in Chisholm Minnesota after his dna matched the dna from the murder scene of Nancy Jane Daugherty.  Nancy worked as an aide at Heritage Manor Nursing Home and local ambulance service volunteer medical technician when she was last seen by a friend at 1 am on 16 July 1986. The two discussed their plans to move down to the Twin Cities the following day to begin attending paramedic school.

Nancy was found the around 3 pm by Chisholm pd.  Her friend had come over to help her pack up and move.  When the friend arrived there was no answer.  After several unanswered visits, the unnamed friend called law enforcement to conduct a welfare check.  They discovered her body and a medical examiner later reported that she died between 3 and 5 a.m.

Jim Daugherty, Nancy husband was out of the country when this happened and was cleared as a suspect.

Nancy was nude and revealing evidence of her being beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled.  There were signs of a struggle both outside and inside the home and witnesses later reported hearing a woman scream in the early morning hours.

Mike Carbo doesn’t seem to have a criminal record.  A few financial issues from the past, and a fine for driving without insurance, but not much more than that!

I haven’t found out if he was ever married, but he had a child with Stephanie Powers and Powers filed for child support back in 1996. Powers married Scott Oberstar in 2000. They are now divorced.

Carbo is currently employed at the Range Center in Chisholm.  I’m assuming he is getting a public defender, and I’m not sure how he will get out if this, the DNA does not lie!

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Please help bring closure to the family and friends of Nancy Daugherty
Reward of up to $50,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for the death of Nancy Daugherty.

Anyone with information about the above crime is requested to contact the Chisholm Police Department at 218-254-7916 or the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Cold Case Homicide Unit at 651-793- 7000 or 1-877-996-6222.

Cold Case: Nancy Daugherty
May 3, 2016 Adam Jagunich

Nancy Daugherty was raped, beaten and murdered 30 years ago in one of the Northland’s most notorious unsolved murders.

Chisholm, a small community on the Iron Range, and three decades after the crime authorities are still trying to figure out who killed Nancy.

“Nancy was well known in town she was working at a nursing home,” Chisholm Police Chief Vern Manner said.

Her divorce was nearly finalized, she was about to embark on a new life in the Twin Cities studying to become a paramedic. “She was out with a friend, they dropped her off,” Manner said. This friend will be the last person, to see Nancy alive.

The friend came back the next day to find all the shades shut and house locked, which was suspicious, and called the police.” The police head over to Nancy’s home and find a gruesome discovery. “She was found dead strangled in her own home a couple days before she was supposed to move,” Manner said. Officers also found her body covered in grass stains indicating a fight prior to her death.

Jim Daugherty, Nancy’s husband, still lives in the house where the murder took place. Jim was out of the country at the time of the murder and was cleared by police as a suspect.

The Nancy Daugherty case helped pave the way for the handling of homicides in Minnesota using more advanced scientific methods. “It was one of the first cases that Minnesota used DNA.”

“What keeps it alive is to the hopes to always solve it and bring closure to the family,” Manner said. Closure is something Chisholm Mayor Mike Jugovich would also like to see. “Here you know everyone, so I think it’s a little more difficult in a smaller community,” Jugovich said. The Mayor has walked closely with the case for 30 years, as his good friend was Nancy’s son.

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