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.

NEWS RELEASE
Bruce Gordon, Director of Communications
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 29, 2020

Arrest Made in Chisholm Cold Case Homicide
DNA Match Leads to Arrest of Local Man in Murder of Nancy Daugherty

​ST. PAUL — The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) and the Chisholm Police Department have made an arrest in the 1986 murder of Nancy Daugherty of Chisholm.

Michael Allan Carbo Jr., 52, of Chisholm, was taken into custody earlier today and booked into the St. Louis County Jail in Virginia on probable cause 2nd Degree Murder.

BCA agents and Chisholm police investigators arrested Carbo after receiving confirmation from the BCA laboratory earlier today that Carbo’s DNA matched DNA from the crime scene.

Nancy Daugherty was last seen alive just after Midnight on July 16, 1986. That afternoon, Chisholm police officers conducting a welfare check located Nancy Daugherty deceased inside of her home. She had been beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled. Evidence at the scene indicated that a struggle had occurred both outside and inside the home. Witnesses later reported hearing a woman screaming in the early morning hours.

BCA scientists obtained a full DNA suspect profile from bodily fluids found on the victim and at the scene. But the DNA did not match any persons in the criminal DNA database.

Over the years investigators interviewed and collected DNA from more than 100 people. Periodic case reviews also happened over the years, but none led to a solid lead in the case, and periodic comparisons of evidence DNA to the DNA database did not result in a match.

In early 2020, the Chisholm Police Department approached the BCA wanting to provide a sample of the DNA evidence to Parabon. The company analyzes public genealogy databases that have law enforcement programs to generate leads in cases. The BCA laboratory coordinated with the company to provide a DNA sample from the decades-old evidence. Based on their analysis and search, Parabon in July identified Mr. Carbo as a potential suspect in the case.

BCA agents and Chisholm investigators began surveillance of Mr. Carbo last week and surreptitiously obtained DNA evidence that was sent to the BCA laboratory for analysis. On Monday, the BCA laboratory reported a DNA match to the bodily fluids found on the victim and at the scene. This morning, investigators obtained a DNA sample directly from Mr. Carbo with his consent. The BCA laboratory tested the known DNA sample, providing confirmation this afternoon of a DNA match.

“We are gratified to be able to provide some answers to this family and this community after all of these years,” Chisholm Police Chief Vern Manner said. “We are grateful as well to the BCA and so many assisting law enforcement agencies that continued to work this case over more than three decades.”

“This case illustrates why no case is ever cold for us,” BCA Superintendent Drew Evans said. “Every time we hit a dead end, investigators and scientists go back to the drawing board. Solving this case is proof of the value of tenacious work – even when it’s over a span of decades.”

Mr. Carbo will be charged in the days ahead by the St. Louis County Attorney’s Office. This remains an ongoing and active investigation.

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News conference from Wednesday 29 July 2020!

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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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