Watkins, MN (KROC AM News) - The young Minnesota girl who was kidnapped from her home last Saturday and later sexually assaulted and killed was laid to rest Friday.
HASTINGS, Minn. (AP) — A Lakeville mother who was accused of concealing her two daughters from their dad for more than two years has been found guilty.
BEMIDJI, Minn. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a Bemidji man with kidnapping a 5-year-old girl who was found in a camper in the northern Minnesota woods last week.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Prosecutors in St. Paul are dropping kidnapping and sexual assault charges against a man accused of chaining up a teen in his basement for days because the alleged victim doesn't want to cooperate with them.
Rochester, MN (KROC AM News) - Another Rochester resident has been arrested in connection with a reported home invasion and kidnapping in Albert Lea Thursday night.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man who authorities say is a person of interest in the 1989 abduction of Jacob Wetterling has pleaded not guilty to several federal child pornography charges.
PAYNESVILLE (AP) — The parents of an 11-year-old St. Joseph boy abducted in 1989 are holding a community meeting to help central Minnesota residents cope with recent developments in the case.
Undated (KROC AM News) - Authorities searched a home in Annandale, Minnesota in July as part of the ongoing Jacob Wetterling abduction case and found a large amount of child pornography, including some involving known child victims. That led to this week’s arrest of the man living at the home, 52-year-old Daniel Heinrich.
It’s been one of the longest, most widely-covered stories in Minnesota over the past 25+ years. It was also an event that caused parents throughout Minnesota to think twice before letting their children venture out in their neighborhoods on their own...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A 22-year-old Shoreview man has received a five-year prison sentence after he was convicted of kidnapping a 15-year-old girl in a plan to force her to marry him.
The Star Tribune reports Kong Xiong was sentenced last week and could be released from prison in July 2018 with credit for time served...
HERMANTOWN, Minn. (AP) — Police in northern Minnesota say they've arrested an Indiana man accused of killing another man at his estranged wife's house and then forcing her and three children to flee with him.