Trisha Taurinskas

Trisha Taurinskas

Enterprise crime reporter | Host of The Vault podcast

Trisha Taurinskas is an enterprise crime reporter for Forum Communications Co., specializing in stories related to missing persons, unsolved crime and general intrigue. Her work is primarily featured on The Vault.

Trisha is also the host of The Vault podcast.

Trisha began her journalism career at Wisconsin Public Radio. She transitioned to print journalism in 2008, and has since covered local and national issues related to crime, politics, education and the environment.

Trisha can be reached at ttaurinskas@forumcomm.com.

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A deputy sheriff stopped by a man's house to question him about the death of Julie Holmquist. Then, there was a gunshot.
20-year-old Carrie Nelson was in the front office at Blue Mounds State Park when she was attacked on May 20, 2001. The case drew hundreds of tips from the public, to no avail.
The murder of four employees at RJR Maintenance and Management in 2019 is the focus of the Dakota Spotlight podcast's newest season, “The Mandan Murders,” launching Oct. 4.
Genetic genealogy, paired with DNA profile, led investigators to the woman's relative in Minnesota.
More than 33 cuts and stab wounds had been inflicted on a 40-year-old mother in 1985. The killers evaded justice for 24 years, until renewed interest in the case led to their arrests.
Kevin Mahoney vanished after attending a party in North Fargo on Oct. 2, 1993. Friends claim the Minnesota man left the party to walk to Moorhead, yet there's no proof he arrived at his destination.
Bloomington Detective Kristin Boomer recently presented the Holly Spangler cold case to the nation's top homicide investigators, who introduced promising DNA capabilities that could crack the case.
Months after the mother of two went missing, her remains were discovered in Mabel, Minnesota. Her boyfriend, Adam Fravel, has been charged with two counts of murder.
The 'On the Case with Paula Zahn' episode is about the assault and murder of Daugherty, attacked and killed in her Chisholm, Minnesota, home in July 1986. Her killer was brought to justice in 2022.
While serving a sentence for murder and attempted murder, Paul Michael Stephani confessed to two additional murders and one brutal beating.