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VAULT - 1970s

On the 50th anniversary of Milda McQuillan's disappearance, her granddaughters visit the area where she was last seen in the Minnesota woods.
One of the students, struck by a guilty conscience, confesses after taking drugs given to him by a female nightclub entertainer.
The race helped launch careers before other regional marathons, including Grandma's, gained wider appeal.
A timeline of Jon Keith Miller's criminal history is told with the help of court documents and images. Miller was convicted in March for the 1974 cold case murder of Mary Schlais.

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Truelson's body was found on July 4, 1972 in the shallow waters of Minnehaha Creek. She died of blunt force trauma to the back of her head.
A new podcast series from The Vault takes listeners behind the scenes of a months-long investigation into the Minneapolis cold case 1972 murder of 16-year-old Joli Truelson
Part 3 of Joli Truelson: Connecting the Dots includes audio from Jon Keith Miller's arrest for the 1974 murder of 25-year-old Mary Schlais
Miller pleaded no contest, despite admitting to Dunn County Sheriff's investigators that he killed her and left her body in a snow bank.
The world-famous Darwin Twine Ball, which has made the small town of Darwin, Minnesota, a destination and is the the world's largest ball of twine created by one man, was started by Francis A. Johnson 75 years ago this month.
With the help of the victim's family, this series digs deep into the investigation related to the 1972 slaying of 16-year-old Joli Truelson, with the goal of identifying her killer.

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Joli Truelson was killed in 1972 after hitching a ride with a man in a gold-colored vehicle. Two years later, Mary Schlais was picked up by a similar car, just miles from where Truelson was last seen.
The case was suspended in 1980 due to the main suspect taking their own life before evidence could be presented to a grand jury.
The cold case killings of Mary and Susie Reker have plagued the Stearns County Sheriff's Office for decades. Now, investigators hope technological DNA advancements will help solve the case.

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