Trisha Taurinskas

Trisha Taurinskas

Enterprise crime reporter | Host of The Vault podcast

Trisha Taurinskas is an enterprise crime reporter for Forum Communications Co., specializing in stories related to missing persons, unsolved crime and general intrigue. Her work is primarily featured on The Vault.

Trisha is also the host of The Vault podcast.

Trisha began her journalism career at Wisconsin Public Radio. She transitioned to print journalism in 2008, and has since covered local and national issues related to crime, politics, education and the environment.

Trisha can be reached at ttaurinskas@forumcomm.com.

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.
The Vault podcast series, "Is there a cult in North Dakota?," goes behind-the-scenes with Forum reporters who investigated the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church in Neche, North Dakota
The idea of reporting a missing person can be overwhelming. Here are the steps that should be taken.
Television shows have perpetuated the belief that 24 hours must pass before a missing persons report can be filed. That's false.
The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Office was created in 2021 with the goal of reducing the number of unsolved cases in Minnesota.
Advancements in forensic DNA analysis are opening the doors to answers in decades-old cold cases
For the first time, Jon Keith Miller's DNA profile will be included in state and national databases -- and investigators are standing by.
The DNA Doe Project has identified the man discovered in at St. Paul building in 1985 as 33-year-old Frank Augenti
Jon K. Miller lived quietly in Austin, Minnesota, in the years leading up to his arrest for the 1974 murder of Mary Schlais. His DNA will now be included in CODIS, where it had previously not existed.
"Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey" is generating renewed interest in the decades-long cold case of the 6-year-old beauty pageant winner