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Stolen Bible Leads to Charges in Death of 'Wonderful and Loving' Carver Co. Man
KSTP.com ^ | 5/13/15 | Jennie Lissarrague

Posted on 05/13/2015 3:26:52 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

A stolen Bible with two $1,000 savings bonds issued to a 90-year-old Carver County man who was murdered led police to arrest two suspects in his death.

Earl Olander was found beaten and robbed inside his home on the 16000 block of Homestead Road back on April 11. Police say his hands and ankles were bound with duct tape and that he was found lying face-down on the floor of his living room.

According to the criminal complaint, Olander had multiple injuries to his head, face and body. Police also say his entire home was ransacked, with drawers pulled out and thrown around, cabinets and closets emptied and documents and papers strewn about.

Police say they found a black rubber glove in the driveway and shoeprints consistent with both Crocs and Adidas.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: bible; dreamers; lutheran; minnesota; murder
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Sadly, only 4-legged animals get put down in Minnesota.
1 posted on 05/13/2015 3:26:52 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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2 posted on 05/13/2015 3:28:21 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Make A Donation To Free Republic Tonight.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Someone suggested the murdering animals were a couple of local methheads.

Wrong. In such cases the first images that spring to mind are usually the correct ones.

3 posted on 05/13/2015 3:29:55 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter

Both here legally, I’m sure.


4 posted on 05/13/2015 3:31:34 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Probably Salvadorans.


5 posted on 05/13/2015 3:32:45 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("He's not my prophet, he's just some dead bloke." ~ Mark Steyn)
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To: TurboZamboni

Jou neber know, mang.


6 posted on 05/13/2015 3:33:11 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Make A Donation To Free Republic Tonight.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

shoeprints consistent with both Crocs and Adidas
The perps were not very fashionable. Who in their right mind wears Crocs while committing a crime?


7 posted on 05/13/2015 3:33:57 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Hate crime! Oh wait, never mind.


8 posted on 05/13/2015 3:35:47 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: TurboZamboni

They were, in Jeb Bush’s words, “dreamers who came here as an act of love”.


9 posted on 05/13/2015 3:35:51 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Red_Devil 232

“After questioning, local authorities turned the pair over to the Fashion Police.”


10 posted on 05/13/2015 3:36:16 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Make A Donation To Free Republic Tonight.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

The thing on the right told police that the old man was targeted because he was old, lived alone and had money. So it confessed, now just take these things out and HANG them!!!!


11 posted on 05/13/2015 3:38:39 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

They are mad dogs...rabid...and should be put down post haste.


12 posted on 05/13/2015 3:38:50 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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29-year-old Edson Celin-Dominguez Benitez of St. Paul. He was arrested that same day. Police say he was wearing Crocs.

During an investigation, police learned that 35-year-old Reinol Godines Vergara of Richfield previously painted Olander’s house and shed. After his arrest, he told police Olander was an easy target because he was old, lived alone and had money, according to the complaint. Vergara and Benitez are accused of driving to Olander’s house on April 9 to rob him.

13 posted on 05/13/2015 3:39:46 PM PDT by matt1234
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To: Jeff Head

Sorry...Welcome to Minnesota!


14 posted on 05/13/2015 3:40:33 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Make A Donation To Free Republic Tonight.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Small point, but re; comment that ‘The Bible was written in a European language”. There is no such thing as “a European Language, per se. Judging from the names of his friends, and that he was of the Lutheran Church, liked a team from Minnesota, a little asking would probably show that as being Norweigien, or some Germanic language. That’s like Obama saying someone ‘spoke Austrian’.


15 posted on 05/13/2015 3:41:54 PM PDT by lee martell (The sa)
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Why weren’t they charged with 1st degree murder?

To make it all the way to 90, and then to be taken out in this way... His final moments must’ve been horrific. God rest his kind soul.


16 posted on 05/13/2015 3:43:05 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: TurboZamboni

They both have criminal records, things like drugs, assault, DWI. Who would tell us if they’re illegals?


17 posted on 05/13/2015 3:43:33 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: lee martell

Olander, I’d have to guess Swedish or Norwegian.


18 posted on 05/13/2015 3:46:28 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Make A Donation To Free Republic Tonight.)
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To: lee martell

Ancestry dot com says Swedish.


19 posted on 05/13/2015 3:48:33 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Make A Donation To Free Republic Tonight.)
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To: lee martell

Actually, any number of languages could be described as being “a European language” when the specific one isn’t known.


20 posted on 05/13/2015 3:48:48 PM PDT by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
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