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Laying out the case: Rodriguez trial to begin Thursday
Before the search for Dru Sjodin ended five months later in a ravine near Crookston, Minn., millions nationwide would know Sjodin s face and story and the man suspected of kidnapping and killing her. Federal prosecutors want Alfonso Rodriguez to die if he s found guilty, though North Dakota abolished capital punishment in 1973, nearly 68 years after the state s last hanging. Written By: Steve Wagner | ×
Five days before Thanksgiving 2003, Dru Katrina Sjodin pushed open a Columbia Mall glass door and stepped out into the fading sunlight.
A shopping bag in hand, Sjodin spoke on her cell phone to boyfriend Chris Lang while walking to her red 1993 Oldsmobile Cutlass parked at the Grand Forks, N.D., mall.
Laying out the case: Rodriguez trial to begin Thursday
Before the search for Dru Sjodin ended five months later in a ravine near Crookston, Minn., millions nationwide would know Sjodin s face and story and the man suspected of kidnapping and killing her. Federal prosecutors want Alfonso Rodriguez to die if he s found guilty, though North Dakota abolished capital punishment in 1973, nearly 68 years after the state s last hanging. Written By: Steve Wagner | ×
Five days before Thanksgiving 2003, Dru Katrina Sjodin pushed open a Columbia Mall glass door and stepped out into the fading sunlight.
A shopping bag in hand, Sjodin spoke on her cell phone to boyfriend Chris Lang while walking to her red 1993 Oldsmobile Cutlass parked at the Grand Forks, N.D., mall.