For the first time, Jon Keith Miller's DNA profile will be included in state and national databases -- and investigators are standing by.| Wadena Pioneer Journal
Advancements in forensic DNA analysis are opening the doors to answers in decades-old cold cases| Wadena Pioneer Journal
Miller pleaded no contest, despite admitting to Dunn County Sheriff's investigators that he killed her and left her body in a snow bank.| Wadena Pioneer Journal
The cold case killings of Mary and Susie Reker have plagued the Stearns County Sheriff's Office for decades. Now, investigators hope technological DNA advancements will help solve the case.| Wadena Pioneer Journal
Trisha Taurinskas is an enterprise crime reporter for Forum Communications Co., specializing in stories related to missing persons, unsolved crime and general intrigue. Her work is primarily featured on The Vault. Trisha is also the host of The Vault podcast. Trisha began her journalism career at…| Wadena Pioneer Journal
Jeremy Fugleberg is editor of The Vault, Forum Communications Co.'s home for Midwest history, mysteries, crime and culture.| Wadena Pioneer Journal
Jon K. Miller, 84, of Owatonna, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Mary Schlais, of Minneapolis, in 1974. Investigative genetic genealogy credited with leading to his arrest.| Wadena Pioneer Journal
With the help of the victim's family, this series digs deep into the investigation related to the 1972 slaying of 16-year-old Joli Truelson, with the goal of identifying her killer.| Wadena Pioneer Journal
Joli Truelson was killed in 1972 after hitching a ride with a man in a gold-colored vehicle. Two years later, Mary Schlais was picked up by a similar car, just miles from where Truelson was last seen.| Wadena Pioneer Journal
News, photos and podcasts about true crime, historical true crime, mysteries, oddities and history from the upper Midwest, including Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.| Wadena Pioneer Journal
The murder of Mary Schlais, a Minnesota woman just passing through rural Wisconsin on her way from one big city to another, was never forgotten.| Wadena Pioneer Journal
Jon K. Miller lived quietly in Austin, Minnesota, in the years leading up to his arrest for the 1974 murder of Mary Schlais. His DNA will now be included in CODIS, where it had previously not existed.| Wadena Pioneer Journal