Minnesota

5,949 murders reported in Minnesota from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 82%. Explore the statistics →

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Cases

Murder of Jacob Wetterling
1989 · St. Joseph, Minnesota
SingleIdentified, never tried1 victim
On the night of October 22, 1989, 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was abducted at gunpoint by a masked man while biking home with his brother and a friend from a convenience store in St.
Alfonso Rodriguez Jr.
2003 · Grand Forks, North Dakota
SingleConvicted1 victim
On November 22, 2003, Dru Sjodin, a 22-year-old University of North Dakota student, was abducted from the parking lot of Columbia Mall in Grand Forks after finishing her shift at a store there.
Byron Smith
2012 · Little Falls, Minnesota
SingleConvicted2 victims
On Thanksgiving Day 2012, Byron Smith, a 64-year-old retired State Department employee whose house outside Little Falls, Minnesota, had been burglarized several times, shot and killed two teenage cousins, Nick Brady,…
Glensheen murders
1977 · Duluth, Minnesota
SinglePleaded guilty2 victims
In the early hours of June 27, 1977, heiress Elisabeth Congdon, 83, and her night nurse, Velma Pietila, 67, were killed at Glensheen, the Congdon family's lakeside estate in Duluth.