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What followed has haunted investigators and readers for close to two decades: a 47-minute phone call with his father, a calm voice certain of its location - then two words, and silence. Cell tower records later placed him 25 miles from where he said he stood. His car sat undamaged in a ditch, doors unlocked, keys gone. No trace of him has surfaced since -not in 2008, not in the 2021 drought that exposed riverbed no search team had reached, not in the 2022 case review.
Built from court records, contemporaneous news coverage, and official investigation statements - not podcast rumor - this book traces the case from that first ordinary call through the legislative change it forced in Minnesota law to where the investigation stands today.
If you read true crime for the real story, not a dramatized guess at one, this book earns every page.
