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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.


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.


Nov 7th, 2009

Summary: News and information about the disappearance and search for Joshua Guimond, missing November 10, 2002 from St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on November 7, 2008, Aubrey Immelman reported that Lincoln Chafee, a former Republican senator from Rhode Island who endorsed Barack Obama for president, predicted a bloody struggle for the soul of the GOP. The election results demonstrated that the party had hit rock bottom, Chafee said, but he feared that socially conservative party activists — “the Rush Limbaughs, the Bill O’Reillys, the Sean Hannitys” — were incapable of changing course.