La’Darian Broadnax’s 2019 shooting death. Thomas Lee’s 1993 disappearance. The 1986 Ronnie Bromenschenkel and Cynthia Schmidt case. Area investigators still searching for answers in these unsolved cases.
The teens left their home to run an errand on Sept. 2, 1974. Their bodies were found weeks later in a quarry. No one has ever been charged. Their mother, Rita Reker, now 88, hasn't forgotten.
Using DNA testing and other evidence, investigators say that the parents of the child, found dead in a St. Augustana ditch over 40 years ago, have been identified. The case is considered closed.
Victor John 'Jackie' Theel was just 6 years old in 1944 when he went missing, apparently without a trace, walking home from his first day of school in Paynesville, Minnesota.