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Re: ISANTI JOHN DOE: WM, 20-28, found buried in Isanti, MN - 17
August 2003
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 3:08 pm
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Posted: 5/25/04
Authorities hopeful that forensic facial reconstruction will
help solve Isanti County missing person mystery
by T.W. Budig
ECM capitol reporter
Remember the smile.
That's what local and state law enforcement officials hope a
forensic facial reconstruction of skeleton remains found in
Isanti County last August might do -- jar loose a memory of a
man's distinctive smile.
"We're very hopeful," said Isanti County Sheriff's Office
investigator Chris Janssen during a press conference at the
State Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in St. Paul on Tuesday
(May 25).
The reconstruction is the only angle investigators have left, he
said.
According to forensic experts, the remains unearthed near
Highway 47 and County Road 5 is that of a white man, between 20
and 28-years old, about 5 feet, 10 inches tall.
The body, which was buried about three feet deep, could have
been on the site between three and 28 years.
Investigators are treating the case as a homicide though they
have no evidence of the manner of death.
The depth of the grave, the location near a main highway leading
out of the cities, is suspicious.
A check of missing person records and interviews with area
residents has resulted in no clues, according to law enforcement
officials.
A man's watch was found near the burial site. Also a belt was
found.
When the skeletal remains of Marilyn Moore, a 41-year-old woman
from Shell Lake, WI., were found near the Chisago-Isanti County
landfill on Co. Rd. 19 in September 1990, they went unidentified
for over a year until reconstructed by a BCA specialist.
That likeness was then published in many area newspapers.
A Cambridge woman saw a poster of a missing woman when she was
in Duluth in 1991 and provided the link between that person and
the unidentified remains.
Moore, who had lived in an abusive relationship for many years,
is believed to have died from natural causes. How she came to be
found in Isanti County remains a mystery.Facial reconstructions
have met with some success in the past.
Reconstructions are likenesses. They do not necessarily have
photographic exactness.
Experts use anatomical statistics -- the length of nose is
determined my measuring a bone at the base of the nose, the
width of the mouth by measuring the six front teeth.
Of nine facial reconstructions done since 1989 by the Bureau,
four resulted in identifications.
"When I see it I get the sense it was somebody, but we just
don't know," said Janssen, gazing at the artist's rendering of
what the unidentified man might have looked like the day he went
missing.
The man's remains were discovered on private property last Aug.
17 when an excavator discovered a skull in a load of earth.
Investigators discovered human remains at the original burial
site and the site where the earth was being dumped.
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Re: ISANTI JOHN DOE: WM, 20-28, found buried in Isanti, MN - 17
August 2003
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 3:09 pm
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Please contact Investigator Chris Janssen with any information
at:
(763) 691-2415 or (763) 689-2141
or email: chris.janssen@sheriff.co.isanti.mn.us
On August 18, 2003 a rural Isanti County landowner discovered
the human skeletal remains of an unknown individual. The
landowner uncovered the remains when he was doing some
excavating work on his property in the area of Highway 47 and
Isanti County road 5.
The Sheriff's Office was notified and responded to the scene.
The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension was requested to assist our
office with this investigation. The BCA's mobile crime lab
responded to the location and began their investigation and
reconstruction of the remains to determine the approximate time
of death as well as the victim's sex, age, physical size and
possible cause of death. After this phase of the investigation
is complete, dental records of reported missing persons will be
compared with that of the remains we recovered.
The only thing we know for certain at this time is that the
victim is an adult. Please contact us if you have any
information.
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Re: ISANTI JOHN DOE: WM, 20-28, found buried in Isanti, MN - 17
August 2003
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 3:11 pm
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Re: ISANTI JOHN DOE: WM, 20-28, found buried in Isanti, MN - 17
August 2003
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 3:12 pm
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Re: ISANTI JOHN DOE: WM, 20-28, found buried in Isanti, MN - 17
August 2003
By: Akoya Date: July 12, 2020, 3:14 pm
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Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension
August 17, 2012 ·
The BCA and the Isanti County Sheriff’s Office are looking for
tips in an unidentified John Doe case. Skeletal remains were
found buried in Isanti County near Highway 47 and County Road 5
on August 17, 2003. The body is believed to be that of a white
male, age 20 – 28 years old and approximately 5’10” tall. The
remains were buried at least three years prior to the discovery
in 2003. Anyone with information on this or other Minnesota cold
cases is urged to contact the BCA tip line: 1-877-996-6222 or
BCA.Coldcase@state.mn.us
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Re: ISANTI JOHN DOE: WM, 20-28, found buried in Isanti, MN - 17
August 2003
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Re: ISANTI JOHN DOE: WM, 20-28, found buried in Isanti, MN - 17
August 2003
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Re: ISANTI JOHN DOE: WM, 20-28, found buried in Isanti, MN - 17
August 2003
By: Scorpio Date: December 6, 2022, 10:16 pm
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Isanti John Doe has been identified as 22 Year-Old Donald
Rindahl of New Brighton, MN.
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Re: ISANTI JOHN DOE: WM, 20-28, found buried in Isanti, MN - 17
August 2003
By: Scorpio Date: December 6, 2022, 10:17 pm
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[b]Remains found in 2003 belong to New Brighton man missing
since 1970 [/b]
Fifty-one years ago, Donald Rindahl told his family he was
leaving New Brighton and moving to California.
They never heard from him again.
Rindahl’s remains were discovered in August 2003 about 3 feet
underground by a man doing a landscaping project on his property
about six miles east of Isanti, Minn. Officials at the time were
able to determine that the remains were that of a white man in
his 20s who had been buried there for anywhere from three to 28
years.
But no one knew who he was until just a few weeks ago.
On Wednesday, Isanti County Chief Deputy Lisa Lovering said her
agency had partnered with Othram Inc., a Texas-based company
that specializes in forensic genealogy, to determine Rindahl’s
identity. DNA taken from his remains was used to construct a
family tree, which led to the genetic confirmation of his
identity, she said.
Based on the family tree, Lovering said she was able to locate
two of Rindahl’s siblings. The siblings — a brother and a sister
— said Rindahl had been missing since 1970; they also submitted
DNA samples that confirmed they had a full biological sibling
relationship with the remains found in 2003, Lovering said.
“There is a lot of disbelief, but there is a lot of peace
because we know that he’s being brought to his family,” Lovering
said. “It’s not complete closure for them because there are
still a lot of unanswered questions that we have, but at least
they know that they can have him back home, and there’s some
comfort with that.”
Sadly, she said, Rindahl’s parents died without knowing what
happened to their son.
“They held out hope that maybe he was going to show up one day,”
she said. “He never did.”
QUESTIONS UNANSWERED
Rindahl was 22 and living with a roommate in New Brighton at the
time of his disappearance. His siblings told police that the FBI
had been looking for their brother prior to his disappearance
“due to some involvement with drugs,” Lovering said. The FBI
case records have not been located.
Rindahl is believed to be the victim of a homicide, but his
death is currently classified as undetermined, she said.
Missing-persons reports weren’t usually filed on adults in the
1970s and 1980s, Lovering said. “People didn’t report adults as
missing persons unless there was something really suspicious
going on.”
In Rindahl’s case, it wasn’t out of character for him to leave
for stretches of time and not be in touch with family, Lovering
said. “It wasn’t like they had cellphones or pagers to stay in
contact,” she said. “They didn’t even consider him a missing
person for quite a while and then a report was never filed on
him.”
There was a lot of speculation and rumors flying around at the
time of his disappearance, “but nothing was ever substantiated,”
she said. “They were told he went to California. We don’t know
if he even went to California.”
Rindahl’s brother told police that he traveled to California
himself at one point to try to locate his brother, but was
unsuccessful. “I don’t even know how you even start that
process,” she said. “Where do you go? (Donald) gave no
information as to where he was going.”
When the remains were found in August 2003, investigators with
the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension obtained DNA
evidence, as well as dental records, which were entered into
missing-persons databases, Lovering said. A facial
reconstruction also was done.
Over the years, investigators submitted DNA samples from people
looking for a family member, but there were no matches, she
said.
Anyone with information about the death of Donald Rindahl is
asked to contact the Isanti County Sheriff’s Office at
763-689-2141 or CrimeStoppers of Minnesota at 1-800-222-8477.
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