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Summary: The child sexual abuse scandal at Penn State University, in which former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is charged with 40 sex crimes against minors while running a program for at-risk kids raises new questions about the unsolved disappearance of Joshua Guimond nine years ago today, on Nov. 10, 2002, from the campus of St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on November 10, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Maple Lake, Minn., student Joshua Guimond had been missing eight years from the campus of St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota. He noted that Josh still remained missing and that his case appeared no closer to resolution than the day he vanished. As a consequence, Immelman contended that to move Josh’s case forward, it was imperative that the Stearns County Sheriff’s Department refer the case to FBI behavioral scientists promptly for review and investigative recommendations.



Summary: The 22nd anniversary of the abduction of Jacob Wetterling is being marked with a large donation to the AMBER Alert program, which notifies the community about missing children. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 22, 2010, Aubrey Immelman commemorated the 21st anniversary of Jacob Wetterling’s abduction on October 22, 1989 in St. Joseph, Minn.


Jun 22nd, 2011

Summary: On September 30, 1982, 3-year-old Kevin Jay Ayotte went missing from his family’s summer home in Sugar Bush Township, located in eastern Beltrami County, Minnesota. An exhaustive search and investigation by the Sheriff’s Department, with assistance from state and federal agencies, did not succeed in finding Kevin or even determining the exact nature of his disappearance. … New developments. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on June 22, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.


Nov 10th, 2010

Summary: Eight years ago today, on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2002, Maple Lake, Minn., student Joshua Guimond was reported missing from the campus of St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota. Josh remains missing and his case appears no closer to resolution than the day he vanished. To move Josh’s case forward, it is critical that the Stearns County Sheriff’s Department refer the case to FBI behavioral scientists now for review and recommendations. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on November 10, 2009, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.


Oct 5th, 2010

Update: Jacob Wetterling’s remains have been found after Danny Heinrich led investigators to a site in Central Minnesota. … Previous: Stearns County Sheriff John Sanner announced that nothing of consequence was found in the July 2010 search of the Rassier farmstead in the Jacob Wetterling kidnapping investigation; however, he added that technology could eventually improve to the extent that it would allow for future testing of the items seized.


Aug 28th, 2010

Summary: Dan Rassier, a teacher whom police call a “person of interest” in the Jacob Wetterling abduction, has been assigned to a different elementary school, provoking an outcry from some parents at his new school. “They’ve brought concerns about placing their children in a potentially dangerous situation,” said Sister Sharon Waldoch, principal of St. Boniface School in Cold Spring, Minn. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on August 28, 2009, Aubrey Immelman reported that Jaycee Lee Dugard, kidnapped in 1991 from a school bus stop at the age of 11, was found alive after being held captive by a convicted rapist in his backyard as a sex slave for nearly two decades and forced to bear two of his children.


Aug 6th, 2010

Summary: NBC Dateline devoted a full hour to the murder mystery of Chris Jenkins, the University of Minnesota student who went missing in downtown Minneapolis on Halloween night, 2002. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on August 6, 2009 Aubrey Immelman featured a video montage of the bizarre Rep. Michele Bachmann’s more memorable televised statements of the past year, set to the soundtrack of “Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley.


Jul 3rd, 2010

Summary: On Friday, July 2, 2010 Stearns County Sheriff John Sanner described 54-year-old music teacher Dan Rassier as a “person of interest” in the abduction of Jacob Wetterling at the end of the Rassier driveway on the evening of Oct. 22, 1989. Aubrey Immelman discusses aspects of criminal motive and the likely offender profile, noting the need for a linkage analyis involving the unsolved kidnapping and sexual assault of Jared S. in Cold Spring and the unexplained disappearance of Joshua Guimond from the campus of St. John’s University. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on July 3, 2009 Aubrey Immelman, on the occasion of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s sudden resignation from office, featured his research on Palin’s personal psychology, conducted at the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics.


Jul 1st, 2010

Summary: On Wednesday, June 30, 2010 — more than 20 years after Jacob Wetterling’s abduction on Oct. 22, 1989 — law enforcement converged on the farmstead on the outskirts of St. Joseph, Minn., where a masked man took Jacob at gunpoint at the approach to the driveway of 29748 91st Ave, home Robert and Rita Rassier and their son Daniel Rassier. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on July 1, 2009 Aubrey Immelman reported that PolitiFact’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Truth-O-Meter rated Rep. Michele Bachmann’s “ridiculously false statement” that the Constitution only requires people to tell the Census Bureau how many individuals are in their home as [Liar, Liar] Pants on Fire.


May 24th, 2010

Summary: Investigative report on new developments in the case of missing St. John’s University student Joshua Guimond, from KMSP Fox 9 TV in the Twin Cities. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on May 24, 2009, Aubrey Immelman reported speculation that Tarryl Clark, assistant majority leader in the Minnesota state senate, would join the race for the Democratic endorsement to run against Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) in the 2010 general election for U.S. House of Representatives in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District.