Trisha Taurinskas
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More than 50 years after mother's murder, her daughter is taking on the case (opens the original)
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BLOOMINGTON — Joelle Aguirre’s fourth birthday party is seared in her brain. It was the day her mother never came home. “My only memory is being at my grandparents' house, her parents, sitting on the back step porch at my party and watching the back gate for her to come through for my party,” she told Forum News Service. “Unfortunately that's the only memory that I have.” Her mother, 23-year-old Terry Jean Brady, had been reported missing a week earlier — a fact Aguirre wouldn’t learn until she
Exhumation could bring answers in 1972 unsolved death of Joli Truelson (opens the original)
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MINNEAPOLIS — Decades after evidence was thrown away in the slaying of a 16-year-old Minneapolis girl, her body is undergoing advanced DNA testing. Her body was exhumed in July of this year, and is being processed by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Joli Truelson was found dead July 4, 1972, in Minnehaha Creek, hours after she accepted a ride in the Uptown area of Minneapolis from a man driving a two-door, gold-colored car. The initial autopsy determined she died from blunt force t
New details about serial killer revealed in investigative podcast (opens the original)
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A four-part series examining the life and crimes of Harvey Carignan is now available on The Vault, Forum Communications Co.’s premier true-crime investigative podcast. "Crafting a Killer: The Harvey Carignan Story" follows a three-part article series published on The Vault — but the podcast goes even further, examining Carignan’s childhood in North Dakota, highlighting an interview with a surviving victim, and exploring possible connections between Carignan and other cold cases. Carignan was a s
A closer look at Harvey Carignan (opens the original)
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Over the course of several months this year, reporter Trisha Taurinskas looked into the life and crimes of Harvey Carignan — a serial killer born in Fargo, North Dakota, and convicted of crimes in Minnesota and Alaska. While the crimes of Carigan, known by the nicknames "The Want Ad Killer" and "Harv the Hammer," had been well-documented in books published decades ago, little has been done about his childhood and life prior to his spree of murders and attack on young women. Subscribers can read
ICYMI: 3-part series tracks serial killer's life, crimes (opens the original)
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As a notorious serial killer from the 1970s, Harvey Carignan made national news for his heinous crimes. After the disappearance and murder of girl in Washington, police began looking for "The Want Ad Killer" after she responded to a newspaper ad. Carignan, the primary suspect, fled to Minnesota, where a series of brutal attacks and murders, using a hammer as a weapon, led investigators to him. In the 1980s, a documentary and books profiled Carignan, but little has been published on his life prio
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