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!CLOQUET, Minn. (AP)—The nude Ixxly of a 14-year-old girl,with at least four stab wounds in the throat and chest, was found today on the stage of the Cloquet High School band room.Kathleen Rodie, a ninth grader, was slain after she apparently came to school early to practice her flute.The body was discovered about 7:30 a.m. by another student, Dan Kosen, 13. The boy too had come to school early, to practice his drums in the band room.INorcross Man One oi 3 Killedin T raff icThe victim apparently was nude at the tune she was stabbed. Her clothing was scattered about the small stage, and none of the garments 'oore blood stains.Robert Barr, Carlton County, ---———.coroner, and a Duluth pathologist arranged to perform anautopsy to determine whether the victim had been sexuallyj assaulted.Kathleen was a daughter of , Mr. and Mrs. Russell Bodie of Cloquet. 1Police said there was some; blood on a curtain backdrop on | the 12 by 20-foot stage. Officers j also were checking a bloodstained towel found in the boys’ locker room. It had not loen determined, 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.One 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 the store entrance but did notenter* The man walked around the building and disappeared.Andrews said he could not remember ever having seen theman before.Also sought to questioning wasa young man, possibly a teenager, who was seen by a school bus driver about 8 a.m. six blocks from the school.William Highland, the driver, said he was forced to stop «he bus when the young man darted across Highway 33 and crouched in grass along the road as ifhe were trying to avoid being seen.Highland, unaware of the slaying, continued on to the school. He said the young man wore a black ski jacket with a red or brightly colored bandrunning through it.Kathleen was considered an outstanding student by her teachers. She was a member of several school organizations, including the junior band. Her father had served on a citizens committee backing a bond issuefor construction of a school addition. The addition included the 35 by 35-foot band room and its smail stage.Officers from the St. Llouis and Carlton County sheriff’s office were called to aid Cloquet police in the investigation.By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSThree traffic deaths and a non-fatal school bus accident have 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 nightwhen two cars collided headon in fog on Minnesota 9 about three miles south of Donnelly in Stevens County.Two more cars plowed Into the wreckage, but their occupants were not injured.Hospitalized at Fargo, N.D., were Haugen’s brother, Leland, and Ronald Meyer of Morris, one of the drivers.Robert Groebner, 21, of rural Sleepy Eye and David Ziemer, 19, of Dunell, each driving alone, were killed when their cars crashed in the fog Wednesday 10 miles south of Sleepy Eye onMinnesota 4.Authorities said one of the cars was passing a milk truck at the time.A Buffalo Lake school bus with 10 pupils aboard collided with a pickup truck at an intersection 10 miles northwest of the Renville County community, in southwestern Minnesota. Three of the youngsters were able to go to school after being checked by doctors, but the others were hospitalized at Olivia.Hospital attendants identified the children and listed their injuries:LaVonne Runke, 15, Stewart, the most severely injured with a pelvis fracture and possible internal injuries.Dale Briest, 7, Stewart, bruised cheek bone.Debra Karl. 14. Buffalo Lake
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Fergus Falls Daily Journal
Fergus Falls, Minnesota, US
Thu, Nov 17, 1966
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