DRU SJODIN CASE: Knife found in trunk Source: Blood in Rodriguez's car matches Sjodin's DNA

Miami Herald ^ | 12-9-2003 | Stephen J. Lee

[Canadian Outrage]

Hey there Nully!! You still available for Jury Duty on the Peterson case???

[null and void]

I've got Jury Duty Christmas week...

[Canadian Outrage]

What case Nully? I'm leaving work now. But BBL

[cherry]

Agree with almost everything you have to say, Zulu....

but don't you think that we citizens are becoming like sheep ourselves...

in days gone by, if this type of thing happened to your dtr, the perp would be dead by now, or at least we would have mobs of people guarding him outside his little one man cell, letting him know that his turn is coming...

not to blame religion, or Christianity, but I think too many people hide behind "forgiveness" and "God will be his judge" etc...

there is no way a loving God would not allow His people to protect themselves and their children from such evil...

I also think that God will punish people that just sit by, passively as innocent children are killed.....

I would love to have Mr. Sjoden come out and tell the cops and the media that he has heard from Dru, that she just ran away, and that they should free Mr. Rodriquez immediately....

then just take care of business if you know what I mean.....( maybe we can do the same with Scotty)

[null and void]

No case, I have to call in, and if my group number is on the list, show up and be available to be selected.

[cherry]

Is there any local radio stations that we could pick up on the internet....like local talk shows?

[yarddog]

Assuming they really have found her DNA in the blood in his car, in addition to the other things which are known, there is basically zero chance he is innocent.

If I were his lawyer I think I would tell him to be completely cooperative and tell everything about the murder/kidnapping. That is the only chance to maybe save him from the Federal death penalty.

[Devil_Anse]

Thanks for the ping, maggiefluffs!

To Hillary'sLovelyLegs: Yes, I heard that Rodriguez could be prosecuted under federal law and be eligible for the federal death penalty. (I assume a murder would have to be proved for that death penalty to apply.) When I heard this on TV, I assumed that the reason for it was b/c kidnapping was involved, as the feds have strict kidnapping laws which originated around the time of the Lindbergh era.

[Devil_Anse]

Oh God, oh God, oh God...

If it's this sad to me, imagine how it feels to her family...

[Devil_Anse]

Good Lord! You think they've known for that long about the shoe??

Guess their Thanksgiving was even drearier than I'd imagined.

[Jackie-O]

I really don't think the shoe info was released until today, even to the family. I have learned first hand that LE keep their investigation under wraps, even from the family. Leaks could tip off the perp.
Hey, our Chief of Police here was arrested for road rage this AM. I have to admit I was a bit gleeful because of the bumping of heads in our case with DDL. They have been less than forthcoming with me.
I can't seem to find the unsealed warrants/affidavits for this case..do you know how to locate??

[ZULU]

I agree with you TOTALLY.

If Mr. Rodriguez killed that little angel, he should be strung up from the nearest tree and hanged. So far, it looks like he abducted her.

BUT,the important thing is to be sure you got the right guy - then, if he has indeed sent her back to her Father in heaven, send him back to the Devil in hell who spawned him.

You are right. We have become gradually emasculated by a ever more powerful government. We have delegated to the state the suthority to protect and defend us, and the state has abused that authority. The courts do NOT dispense justice to the aggreived, they dispense largess to the attorneys who run the state, and have assumed that their responsiblity is not to mete out punishment to the guilty, but to "reform" them. The best "reformation" for a rapist or murderer is a hemp rope, and the best reformation for petty theives and buglars is time breaking rocks in a quarry.

Unless we insist that the government answer to US, and do OUR bidding, instead of that of the entrenched beaurocrats, attorneys and politicians that run it, we will soon find ourselves back in 1776, with the King and his ministers sitting right here in our midst, and multiplied by the thousands, instead of half a world away across a wide ocean.

[Jackie-O]

On Greta: Unsealed warrants..blood found on Rodriquez car-passanger window and in back seat matched Dru. Folding type knife found in wheel well in the trunk soaking in cleaning solution. Perp lied to police and said that her was at a movie at the time of kidnapping, LE checked and the movie was not playing between 5 and 7PM when the crime occurred.
Baden will be up to comment on evidence, the Sargent will be on too.

[Jackie-O]

I meant to ping you too...post #133

[VadeRetro]

CNN has updated their article to describe what was in the affidavit.

Affidavit reveals details of case

According to a police affidavit unsealed Tuesday, police first interviewed Rodriguez on November 26, just four days after the disappearance, after they received a tip that he was in Grand Forks the day Sjodin disappeared.

The affidavit says during that interview Rodriguez confirmed he was in Grand Forks the afternoon of November 22 and went to the mall. He said he went to the movie "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" at a theater near the mall, and that it ended about 7 p.m. But the affidavit says the movie was not being shown at any theater Grand Forks at that time.

During the interview, police got Rodriguez's consent to search his car and saw a knife in the trunk, according to the affidavit.

The affidavit says blood was found on the passenger-side rear window and in the back seat, as well as two other areas in the passenger compartment.

"The blood did come back. It was a DNA match with Dru from the DNA taken from Dru's toothbrush," the sheriff said.

In addition, a black loafer belonging to Sjodin was found beneath a bridge along the bank of the Red Lake River in the days after her disappearance. The bridge was on a highway heading into Crookston, Rodriguez's hometown, about 25 miles east of Grand Forks.

Nothing else was found near the shoe.

"We felt if the shoe was there, she was possibly there. But ... we did a thorough search and she is not in [the river]," Hill said.

He added, "Exactly how [the shoe] got there, we don't know."

According to the affidavit, surveillance video indicates Sjodin left the mall at 5 p.m., shortly after buying a purse from a Marshall Field's department store.

She was talking on a cell phone with her boyfriend at the time, a call that ended at 5:04 p.m. with her saying, "OK, OK," according to the affidavit. At 7:42 p.m., an outgoing call from her cell phone was made to her boyfriend, but only static could be heard. The call lasted 55 seconds and was made at a rest stop near Crookston, the affidavit says.

At about 11 that same night, police found Sjodin's vehicle in the mall parking lot near a J.C. Penney store. The passenger-side door was unlocked, and the Marshall Field's shopping bag, her credit card and a datebook were still inside, according to the affidavit.

Outside the vehicle, police found a black nylon sheath with the words "tool shop" in white letters on it. The affidavit says the sheath is sold only at a local hardware store as a pair with a folding knife -- the same type found in Rodriguez's vehicle.

Capt. Mike Kirby of the Grand Forks Police Department asked managers of construction and industrial sites Monday to search their properties for "articles of interest, anything suspicious, anything out of the ordinary" and reiterated a plea to landowners to do the same.

"If you find anything out of the ordinary, we're asking that you please to not touch it, simply leave it in place" and call law enforcement.

The interest in construction sites, he said, is based on the fact that Rodriguez was working as a drywall hanger when he was taken into custody.

[libsrscum]

"Fry him."

In a pan.

[Sandylapper]

Yes, thanks, Jack. Dru's fate has us all shaking our heads sadly, even Dr. Baden and Greta now, doesn't it?

[Devil_Anse]

blood found on Rodriguez car passenger window

That poor girl. I think she was trying to get out.

[WestCoastGal]

This whole thing is so sad. After reading the report released by CNN I just sat here looking at the screen thinking if this were in the days of the old west they would be stringing this guy up in the town square right now!!

It makes no sense how such a lovely young innocent girl had to suffer and probably lost her life to this piece of trash in a very ugly way. Why can't we do something to keep these guys off the street? I think we would all probably be really scared if we knew how many there are just like him running around scott free.

[Jackie-O]

Thanks for posting that report VR. I had been looking all over for it last night before I went to bed.
I heard a news report this morning that Dru's family is upset that LE has come out to say that she is dead. The said they refuse to loose hope of finding her alive.