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with at least four stab wounds in the throat and chest, was foundtoday on the stage of the Cloquet High School band room.Kathleen Bodie, a ninth grader, was slain after she apparently came to school early to pradicc her flute.The txxly was discovered about 7:30 a.m. by another student.Dan Kosen, 13. The lioy too had come to school early, to practice his drums in the band room.sta bbedHer clothing was scattered about the small stage, and none of the garments bore blood stains.Robert Barr, Carlton County coroner, and a Duluth pathologist arranged to perform anautopsy to determine whether the victim had been sexuallyassaulted.Norcross ManKathleen was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell IWxlie ofCloquet.Police said there was some blood on a curtain backdrop on the 12 by 20-foot stage. Officers also were checking a bloodstained towel found in the boys’ locker room. It bad not leen de-One of 3 Killedin Traf lietermined, however, if the blood was from the girl’s body.Police Chief Charles Weselik said two persons seen in the high school area were sought, jOne was described as a man of about 50 or 55 with a heavy black beard. He was seen at 7:40 a.m. at a small grocery store across the street from the school. The proprietor, Harry Andrews, said the man came to j the store entrance but did not' enterv The man walked around the building and disappeared.Andrews said he could not remember ever having seen theman before.Also sought to questioning was t young man, possibly a teen-iger, who was seen by a school us driver about 8 a.m. six j docks from the school.By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSThree traffic deaths and a non-fatal school bus accidenthave been blamed on dense fog that dropped a white sheet over auto windshields in most of Minnesota Tuesday night and all day Wednesday.The state’s 1966 highway fatality toll stood at 822 today, compared with 740 a year ago. Tom Haugen, 24, of Norcrosswas killed Wednesday night when two cars collided headon in fog on Minnesota 9 about three miles south of Donnelly in Stevens County.Two more cars plowed Intothe wreckage, but their occupants were not injured.Hospitalized at Fargo, N.D., were Haugen’s brother, Leiand, and Ronald Meyer of Morris, one of the drivers.William Highland, the driver, laid he was forced to stop «he us when the young man darted icross Highway 33 and crouch'd in grass along the road as if le were trying to avoid beingleen.Highland, unaware of the (laying, continued on to the (chool. He said the young manRobert Groebner, 21, of ruralSleepy Eye and David Ziemer, 19, of Dunell, each driving alone, were killed when their carscrashed in the fog Wednesday 10 miles south of Sleepy Eye on Minnesota 4.Authorities eaid one of themilk truckcars was passing at the time.A Buffalo Lake schoolwith tn niinilc ohAoivl aaIMaH
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Fergus Falls Daily Journal
Fergus Falls, Minnesota, US
Thu, Nov 17, 1966
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