VALLEY CITY, N.D. (KVRR) – An Arizona woman has been arrested for the 1981 murder of “Baby Rebecca.” Sixty-five-year-old Nancy Jean Trottier is charged with murder. Court documents say that on April 16, 1981, the body of an infant girl was discovered in the wooded area of the Valley City State College campus. An autopsy report indicated the infant had…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — On October 2, 1993, Fargo native Kevin Mahoney was last seen in a friend’s house in north Fargo. Thirty-two years later, his niece is still looking for him. “My mom was the one who kind of held it down every year, and you know, contacted everybody. She always told me, “You don’t give up on family,”…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — Nichole Rice stands accused of murdering her roommate, Anita Knutson, in a fit of rage in their apartment near Minot State University back in 2007. The trial has been moved to Grand Forks, where the prosecution focuses on eliminating other suspects, saying only Rice had the motive and the opportunity, while the defense tries to…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – A judge has determined a defendant from South Dakota accused in a 1974 slaying in Minnesota isn’t competent to stand trial. Algene Vossen was arrested decades after the death of Mable Herman of Willmar, Minnesota, who was found stabbed at her home. But it was only after advances in DNA testing and another look at the…
MINNEAPOLIS, MN — There is a major break in a nearly 50-year-old cold case in Mille Lacs, Minnesota thanks to DNA. A burned body found in an abandoned home 49 years ago has been identified as 18-year-old Gloria Rieken of Minneapolis. The BCA matched her DNA to family members. Gloria was a freshman student at the University of Minnesota at the…
