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The WCCO Original, "Footprint to Murder," follows the Minnesota cold case story that captured worldwide attention when DNA, social media and dedicated detectives ultimately led to the killer.
On June 12, 1993, a woman’s head was found floating in Bone Lake in Scandia, Minnesota. The next day, her foot was found on the banks of the Mississippi River. She remains unidentified.
A week-old deceased infant girl was found in a Cold Spring ditch on April 3, 1980. For more than four decades, her identity was unknown. Advances in DNA technology led investigators to her ...
Dateline dives into one of Minnesota's most disturbing unsolved cases, the mysterious death of Bone Lake Jane Doe.
For the first time, Jon Keith Miller's DNA profile will be included in ... of Mary Schlais adds a new potential suspect for Minnesota cold cases from the same time period.
The case has been cold until now. “We pulled our case filed from 1988 and began looking at them,” said Sgt. McCool. Researchers will use new DNA technology in the OSU Center for Health ...
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (WCCO ... did this using this technique,'” Boeckers said. DNA technology, napkin’s role in breaking open case The team used DNA and forensic investigative genetic ...