Starbuck Man Charged in U of M-Morris Student’s Death
A Starbuck man has been charged with interference with a dead body.
21-year-old Nickolas Mcardell is accused of leaving the body of 21-year-old Laura Schwendemann in a cornfield.
He told investigators that he panicked after she stopped breathing as the two were driving around Douglas County, smoking marijuana and injecting meth.
A medical examiner determined that Schwendemann, a University of Minnesota-Morris student, died of a meth overdose.
Her disappearance led to several large-scale searches.
