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ColdPriorityCriminal · Homicide· Ramsey County, MN

The Riverbend Road Killing (1972)

Unsolved homicide from 1972 in Ramsey County, MN. The file remains open and contributors are re-examining the witness timeline.

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Timeline
  1. 1972

    Body discovered near Riverbend; the county opens a homicide investigation.

  2. 1973

    Initial canvass closes without a named suspect; the case goes inactive.

  3. 1988

    A retired detective releases his field notes to the family.

  4. Recently

    Ledger contributors reopen the evidence inventory and index the public record.

Community leads
2 filed
secondpass1 week ago

Latent prints from the scene predate the national database. Nobody has requested a modern comparison.

156 agree
tidewater5 hours ago

The original canvass skipped the four houses on the far side of the tracks. Those residents were never formally interviewed.

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