It took three votes for jurors in the Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. trial to reach a unanimous verdict and sentence him to death for the kidnapping and murder of Dru Sjodin, jurors said Saturday. The final ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D., Dec. 5, 2003 -- -- Bloodstains found in the car of the man charged in the kidnapping of a University of North Dakota college student match her blood type and a knife sheath found at ...

Dru Sjodin lay dead in a rural drainage ditch, her body half-nude, sliced, stabbed, bound and bruised - when a volunteer searcher found the college student's cell phone within feet of her arms. Nearly ...

Jurors who last week found Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. guilty in the kidnapping and death of Dru Sjodin are deliberating whether the case qualifies for the death penalty. Jurors began deliberations around ...

The defense reminded the panel that a medical examiner testified he could not determine where and when Dru Sjodin died or what caused her death. Her body was found in a ravine near Crookston, Minn., ...

WASHINGTON, April 13, 2005 — -- Just after 5 p.m. on Nov. 22, 2003, Dru Sjodin emerged from her job at the Columbia Mall in Grand Forks, N.D., and, while talking to her boyfriend on her cell ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. U.S. prosecutors said Tuesday that they will ...

A final report will be done by the Ramsey County Medical Examiner's Office in Minnesota, said Greg Widseth, Polk County, Minn., attorney. He and Polk County Sheriff Mark LeTexier refused to comment on ...

BELTRAMI, Minn. - In bitter cold temperatures and biting winds, about 20 people searched ditches and culverts near here for Dru Sjodin, a University of North Dakota student missing since late November ...

Police said Friday the search for Dru Sjodin has been scaled back, but it will continue until she is found. Sjodin's family said they are stopping their separate search effort, and some made plans to ...

The disappearance of University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin prompts an energetic search enlisting hundreds of volunteers. Sjodin disappeared on Nov. 22, jarring the Grand Forks community in ...