In 2024, we covered more than a dozen missing persons cases from across the region. Take a look at the cases below — do you know anything about them that could be of interest to the authorities?
Most cases we covered include information for where to pass on tips. If you have a tip to pass on, contact us at the Vault (contact info below) and we'll get it to the right place.
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Radar tracks put Michael Bratlie, an experienced military and commercial pilot, just past Two Harbors, Minnesota, in his two-engine plane. There the flight path apparently ended.
All Nathan Williams is known to have had with him when he left on his trip are two fishing rods and a single shot Harrington & Richardson 12-gauge shotgun, in case he saw a grouse. He was wearing blue jeans and a black T-shirt. He didn't even have a sleeping bag — just a blue down comforter from his bed.
Her disappearance in Chisholm, Minnesota, remains unsolved, without much evidence. It prompted law enforcement agencies in the state's Northland region to create one of Minnesota's two child abduction response teams.
Roseanna Forcum and April Geyer were last seen at a St. Paul apartment in mid-August 1998. The case remained cold for years before an anonymous caller provided clues.
Law enforcement searched a construction site in Winsted, Minnesota, in connection to the 1995 disappearance of the 27-year-old TV news anchor.
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Hang Lee was last seen in January of 1993 after attending a job interview for a man with a storied criminal history of sexual assault and violence.
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Jamie Tennison, 18, entered the Savanna State Forest for a hunting trip with his father and a friend Oct. 15, 1992, never to be seen again.
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Susan Swedell pulled into a gas station roughly one mile from her home on the night of Jan. 19, 1988. She was last seen by the man who pulled up behind her in a light-colored muscle car.
Authorities continue to ask for help in gathering any information about what may have happened to Carla Beth Anderson, who disappeared in 1987
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Law enforcement says there are people in the small community of Wabasha, Minnesota, who have information that could solve the mystery.
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Helen Brach had gone to Rochester for a medical check up at Mayo Clinic. She disappeared 46 years ago.
Belinda Van Lith was 17 years old when she was reported missing on June 15, 1974, after she didn’t show up to her sister’s going-away party. The investigation has twisted and turned since then.
Police in Sioux Falls continue to seek information on Ellabeth Lodermeier's disappearance, 50 years later
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A Minnesota woman went missing in 1964. Her family still wants answers.
Four-year-old Hickle Harley Ware went missing from Bungo Township in 1938, and no trace of him was ever found despite an exhaustive search.
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