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VAULT - 1980s

Kelly Robinson was 22-years-old when her body was found floating in gravel pit pond on Memorial Day 1984. Investigators allowed the case to go cold after being unable to prove their theory.
Metz Baking Co. just wanted a great advertising campaign for its Old Home Bread. It got the legendary 'C.W. McCall,' trucker anthem 'Convoy,' and led to Mannheim Steamroller.
The collaboration between Patty Wetterling, Jacob's mom, and friend Joy Baker led to a book, and a book tour, that has meant much to those struggling with their own grief and loss.
Susan Swedell, 19 at the time, was last seen at a gas station a mile from her home

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Amy Pagnac was last seen by her stepfather on Aug. 5, 1989, at an Osseo gas station. There are no suspects in her case.
Cindy Gerdes was living in Minneapolis when she was brutally murdered in 1984. Her unsolved case has been called an indictment against society by the city's police chief at the time.
Cynthia Anne Gerdes was murdered in her Minneapolis apartment in 1984, and while investigators believed they had a suspect, her case remains unsolved because she 'had no champions, press or family, clamoring for results.'
The investigative file for the 1980 death of a week-old infant girl in Stearns County, obtained by Forum News Service, details the lengthy investigation that led to her identity.
Robert Leroy Nelson confessed in 1988 to killing a young hitchhiker while on duty in 1980. Throughout his career, he patrolled nineteen of Minnesota's counties. Was she his only victim?
Minnesota State Trooper Robert Leroy Nelson killed Michelle Busha after he picked her up while on duty on May 30, 1980. Her identity wasn't revealed until 2015.
Officials have closed the case after identifying the mother and the child using DNA technology, according to a Sherburne County Sheriff’s Office news release issued Thursday, Aug. 15.
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Susan Swedell pulled into a gas station roughly one mile from her home on the night of Jan. 19, 1988. She was last seen by the man who pulled up behind her in a light-colored muscle car.
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Lawyers work to win parole for Werner Rümmer, investigate new evidence to gain his release.
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A purported witness to Gilbert Fassett's murder gave statements the FBI concluded were "indicative of deception" when disavowing knowledge of the murder.
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Two witnesses recanted their trial testimony and some new witnesses came forward after the trial.

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