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Remarkable story of bloodhound finding Erika Dalquist's body

 
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PostPosted: Sun May 16, 2004 4:55 pm    Post subject: Remarkable story of bloodhound finding Erika Dalquist's body Reply with quote

This is just a heart breaking story. Dru Sjodin's father helped search for Erika, and one of Erika's neighbors bloodhound bolted away from the search party and stood guard at her body until they found the bloodhound. Truly a great story.

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from www.wjla.com (fair use)

Body of Missing Minnesota Woman May Be Found
Sunday May 16, 2004

BRAINERD, Minn. (AP) - Searchers found a body they believe is that of a 21-year-old Minnesota woman who disappeared a year and a half ago, a private investigator said Sunday.

Erika Dalquist was last seen leaving a Brainerd bar with a man on Oct. 30, 2002. Police called a news conference Sunday to announce what they called "a significant development" in the Dalquist case.

Police Chief John Bolduc declined to give details, but Bob Heales, a private investigator involved in the search, said the body was found Saturday wearing the same clothing that Dalquist had on when she was last seen.

"We found what we do believe is Erika," Heales said.

Dalquist's mother, Colleen Dalquist, said police had asked her not to comment before the news conference.

Heales said the body was found near where the suspect grew up, about seven miles east of Brainerd.

The body was found by a neighbor who was looking for a bloodhound that had bolted away during the search Saturday evening, Heales said. He said the bloodhound wasn't found until early Sunday, next to the spot where the body was found.

Heales, who helped lead the search for slain University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin, said he and Sjodin's father, Allan, were among the searchers out Saturday evening.

The recent discovery of Sjodin's body renewed hopes of finding Dalquist, who worked at a telemarketing company and dreamed of one day going into the military.

Heales helped organize a volunteer search for Dalquist the previous weekend, and a search Saturday that drew about 100 volunteers.
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PostPosted: Sun May 16, 2004 5:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

WOW - Amazing. No consulation, but at least they can do a proper burial and they know where she is.
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PostPosted: Sun May 16, 2004 8:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How tragic and terrible that bodies of young women keep turning up! It seems all too often when looking for one person other bodies keep turning up. Heavens only know how many people who are missing are lying somewhere waiting to be found.
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PostPosted: Sun May 16, 2004 10:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Latest News is for news. Mine and benn's off topic comments moved to Latest Discussion.

This is Erika Dalquist's thread. I hope there is a chance of finding her murderer.

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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2004 8:40 am    Post subject: USA story on finding Dalquist article Brainerd Dispatch Reply with quote

Dalquist's body found after 18-month search
BRAINERD, Minn. (AP) — Searchers have found the skeletal remains of a 21-year-old Minnesota woman who disappeared a year and a half ago, authorities said Sunday.

Erika Dalquist's remains were found near the home of relatives of a man long suspected in the case.
By Steve Kohls, Brainerd Daily Dispatch via AP

The remains of Erika Dalquist were found Saturday night on property owned by the grandparents of William Gene Myears, a man long suspected in the case, police said.

Dalquist's parents, Colleen and Duane Dalquist, thanked everyone involved in the search for not giving up.

"Eighteen months ago we went out with one goal in mind: to bring Erika home," Colleen Dalquist said, reading from a brief statement. "She's coming home now. It's a bittersweet day."

Prosecutors charged Myears with second-degree manslaughter in Dalquist's disappearance in January 2003, but dropped the charge two weeks later due to insufficient evidence.

Myears remains a suspect, but Crow Wing County Sheriff Eric Klang would not comment on whether authorities knew where he was Sunday.

Bob Heales, a private investigator involved in the search, said the clothing on the body was the same as Dalquist was wearing when she was last seen Oct. 30, 2002, as she left a bar in downtown Brainerd, about 100 miles north of Minneapolis.

Heales said a neighbor found the body off a trail about seven miles east of Brainerd while looking for a bloodhound that had bolted away during the search.

"I felt a change in the wind, she threw her head up like she caught a scent. And she was gone," said Denny Adams of Conde, S.D., owner of the bloodhound, who's named Calamity Jane.

Heales said the bloodhound was found early Sunday lying next to Dalquist's remains, which were still at the scene, a heavily wooded area bisected by logging trails.

Myears' grandparents were cooperative with the search party Saturday evening, but the grandfather was arrested Sunday morning when he used farm equipment to spray a squad car with manure, Klang said.

The sheriff said the suspect's grandparents own a large amount of farmland, and investigators were still combing the area for evidence Sunday. The body was found near the grandparents' home, authorities said.

A person who answered the phone at the grandparents' home declined comment and added, "Please leave us alone."

Heales, who helped lead the search for slain University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin, said he and Sjodin's father, Allan, were among the searchers out Saturday evening.

The recent discovery of Sjodin's body renewed hopes of finding Dalquist, who worked at a telemarketing company and dreamed of one day going into the military. Her nickname was "Sunny" because of her friendly nature, according to a Web site set up to appeal for help finding her.

The criminal complaint from Myears' 2003 arrest says that he admitted giving Dalquist a ride home from the bar, and later told police he didn't know where she was or whether he had done something to her.

Allan Sjodin called the discovery of Dalquist's body a "double-edged sword. There's the joy that now the Dalquist family doesn't have to wake up every morning and wonder."

But he added, "I'm very sad. You know that now they don't have their daughter in their lives."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-05-16-body-minnesota_x.htm

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Charges dropped, Myears free
Dalquist case Investigators say they need more time

By MATT ERICKSON
Staff Writer

Charges of second-degree manslaughter were dropped today against William Gene Myears, the 24-year-old Brainerd man arrested Jan. 13 in connection with the disappearance of Erika Dalquist.

A joint news release issued by Crow Wing County Attorney Don Ryan, Crow Wing County Sheriff Eric Klang and Brainerd Police Chief John Bolduc stated the charges against Myears were dismissed after investigators and prosecutors concluded that more time was needed to investigate the case before bringing it to a grand jury.

Myears was released from Crow Wing County Jail at 9:15 a.m. today. The news release stated the family of Dalquist was consulted regarding the dismissal of charges against Myears.

According to the criminal complaint filed against Myears Jan. 15, he admitted to police investigators that he had given 21-year-old Dalquist a ride home from downtown Brainerd on Oct. 30, and that the mine pits were the only place he could think of that he would've taken Erika Dalquist's body.

Based on Myears' statement, the Crow Wing County Sheriff's Department has been searching the Virginia Mine Pit Lake near Trommald, but so far has not found Dalquist's body.

The news release also said investigators want more time to search for Dalquist's body. The search may take until summer because of the ice cap on the Virginia Mine Pit Lake.

The Trident Foundation, a Colorado-based non-profit organization that specializes in aquatic investigation and recovery, has offered the use of a remote-operated vehicle to help in the search for Dalquist.

Klang said today six members of the foundation would be in Brainerd within the next few weeks to search the mine pit lake. Other lakes in the immediate area also might be searched, Klang said.




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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2004 9:03 am    Post subject: 3 missing men are there similarities to Dalquist Reply with quote

Chris Jenkins Web site

Erika Dahlquist Web site

Joshua Guimond Web site




Four missing people -- just a tragic coincidence?
by Jeff Horwich, Minnesota Public Radio
November 20, 2002


The four missing people are, clockwise from top left, Erika Dalquist, 21, Chris Jenkins, 21, Michael Noll, 22, and Josh Guimond, 20. (Photos courtesy of search Web sites and UW-Eau Claire)

In the two weeks after Halloween, three college men disappeared from Minneapolis, Collegeville, and Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Around the same time, a 21-year-old woman in Brainerd failed to show up for work, and has not been seen since. Despite constant media exposure and massive search efforts, all four are still missing, and authorities are still waiting for the one tip or stroke of luck that might yield some answers. If the cases are linked, a break in one might solve them all. But at this point it seems just as likely all four are only connected by a tragic coincidence.


Collegeville, Minn. — At the most basic level, investigators have just two scenarios -- either these cases are related in some way, or they're not. But things don't stay basic for long. Any two cases might be related, and the other two random. Or any three.

The cases might just have some uncanny similarities. All four young people seem to have disappeared at night, after consuming varying amounts of alcohol. And at least two would have come close to bodies of water on their way home.

Or there might be someone targeting young people. All four are white, all are between 20 and 22 years old. All three men are similar in height and build. Their schools -- the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, St. John's University in Collegeville and the University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire -- all lie close to Interstate Highway 94.



A volunteer from the Stearns County mounted patrol joins in the search for Josh Guimond

A baffling array of possibilities occupies family members and investigators, including the FBI. Bob White is the director of the Phoenix-based Center for Missing Adults, and a former police missing persons investigator. He says until something better comes along, this is the only way to pursue these cases.

"(Investigators in Minnesota) are not ruling anything out, and I know I certainly wouldn't," White said. "You've got to look at all facets and every aspect that might come your way, and each and every one of the tips that come in to law enforcement is worth its weight in gold when it comes to just that one that lets you break things loose and find that person."

But for every possible connection, White says there will often be signs pointing the other way. For example, these young adults disappeared in very different settings. Christopher Jenkins, the U of M senior, was last seen in crowded downtown Minneapolis. But 20-year-old Josh Guimond disappeared from the isolated and wooded St. John's University campus.

In Eau Claire, Rochester native Michael Noll was last seen at a home in his own neighborhood. Deputy Police Chief Gary Foster says Noll was intoxicated, and they continue to focus on the Chippewa river just 100 feet away.

"There's nothing to indicate any foul play involved," Foster said. "In talking with the other authorities in Minnesota we find no connection to those cases. We're not ruling out any possibilities, but at this point we're concentrating on what's reasonable over here in this investigation."



Buses carried St. John's students to various parts of campus to continue the search

The only woman to disappear was Erika Dalquist of Brainerd. Her mother Colleen says she thinks Erika was taken, but doubts any connection with the three men.

"We try to stay away from theories, because we can come up with some real doozies," Dalquist said from her home in Cushing. "But we really believe that wherever she is, she's not there of her own free will."

At St. John's University in Collegeville, friends of Josh Guimond have been making ribbons and raising money for continued efforts to find him. Junior Gina Pustovar staffs a table in the student union for the "Find Joshua Fund."

"Right now I think the police and everyone involved are leaning toward abduction, since we haven't found any clues or anything," Pustovar said. "He just seemed to disappear. We just hope wherever he is, he's safe, but it's not like him to run off and leave everything behind. He's very responsible and very mature."

Bob White of the Center for Missing Adults says abductions certainly do happen to adults. So do serial abductions and serial murders, but these are extremely rare.

"I never had any in my nine-and-a-half years with the Phoenix police department," White said. "And to put that in perspective, the Phoenix police department gets about 700 missing person cases per month."

Active searches continue in Eau Claire and Minneapolis, where officers have also now turned to the river for clues. But in all four cases the tip lines are open, and investigators are listening.

http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/
200211/21_horwichj_missing/


rd perhaps this topic should say missing persons instead of Chandra and other missing women, seems men are disappearing as well......

Wonder if the suspect in Dalquist murder, liked men as well?!!!
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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2004 12:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, kate, there is a vulnerability of women being made to disappear, often by someone they trust, that is addressed by this site. This is not a general missing persons site. There are others, and some specialize in children for example. I'm not looking to expand the sxope of this site.

The mine pits were the only place he could think of where he may have taken her? Holy cow.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 8:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Search dog dies after service of victim she found

Associated Press
Jun. 11, 2004 08:45 AM

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Calamity Jane has died.

Not the hard-drinking, cross-dressing woman of the West infamous for her rough and raucous life.

It's time to mourn the bold bloodhound that made a name for herself in two high-profile searches for missing women.

Denny Adams, of Conde, S.D., said his search dog Calamity Jane died Wednesday.

The dog was involved in the long winter search for slain University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin, whose remains were found this spring.

Calamity Jane also assisted in finding the remains of Erika Dalquist, a Brainerd woman who was missing for more than a year.

The hound became ill after she accompanied Adams to a memorial service for Dalquist last week, he said.

"Once she got home, she quit eating and she just wore out," Adams said Thursday.

Dalquist's body was discovered last month by searchers looking for Calamity Jane, who had bolted from Adams' hold and was later found lying near the body.

Adams said the extensive searches took a toll on the dog, who worked with volunteers looking for Sjodin throughout the harsh North Dakota winter.

"It was a long, cold winter up in Grand Forks," he said.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 8:59 am    Post subject: Faithful Servant Reply with quote

Thanks for the story Jayne, a very sad ending to such a noble servant. This is sort of creepy, it seems almost as if the dog died in sympathy, felt the pain of these women. The article does not say how old the dog is, and perhaps it died from old age.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 10:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A very hard winter of searching for disappeared women. What a touching story of Calamity Jane from Jayne.

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