Newspaper coverage from the following month quotes a detail that never appears in any filing. Someone briefed a reporter.

Unsolved homicide from 2000 in Hennepin County, MN. The file remains open and contributors are re-examining the witness timeline.
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Body discovered near Willow Run; the county opens a homicide investigation.
Initial canvass closes without a named suspect; the case goes inactive.
A retired detective releases his field notes to the family.
Ledger contributors reopen the evidence inventory and index the public record.
Newspaper coverage from the following month quotes a detail that never appears in any filing. Someone briefed a reporter.
The original canvass skipped the four houses on the far side of the tracks. Those residents were never formally interviewed.
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