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	Dru's Voice - Dru's Life
		Dru and I were so excited and, sure enough, my dad came back to the door and said that the bunny was out hiding all the eggs.
		Dru's childhood years were defining moments in her life that gave those around her a clear picture of what she was all about.
		Dru's charisma and optimism gave those in her life the image of a vivacious youngster with the whole world ahead of her.
	www.drusvoice.com /life (2965 words)

	Rodriguez sentenced to die for killing Dru Sjodin
		Dru Sjodin's parents, Linda Walker and Allan Sjodin, embraced as Linda cried after a press conference soon after a jury returned with a sentence of death for Alfonso Rodriguez Jr.
		was sentenced to death for kidnapping and killing Dru Sjodin in 2003.
		They were surrounded by Dru Sjodin's aunts, uncles, cousins and close friends, many of whom wore some touch of pink -- just as they had worn her favorite color while searching for her.
	www.startribune.com /10086/story/694473.html (913 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Dru Sjodin
		the afternoon of 22 November 2003, Dru Sjodin, a 22-year-old University of North Dakota student, finished her shift at Victoria's Secret at the Columbia Mall in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and was talking to her boyfriend on her cell phone as she walked to her car in the mall parking lot.
		A second call was made from Dru's cell phone to her boyfriend about three hours after her disappearance, but the call consisted only of static and the sound of numbers being pressed.
		Dru's family had set up a web site with photographs of Dru, the number of a tip line, and other information at http://www.finddru.com.
	www.snopes.com /inboxer/adults/sjodin.asp (527 words)

	Dru Sjodin's funeral
		Sjodin was carried to her grave in Pinewood Cemetery in Crosslake Saturday after an emotional funeral under the tall pines and old oaks of Grandview Lodge, where more than 1,500 people celebrated the young woman for, in an uncle's words, "showing the world that love is greater than evil, more lasting than sorrow."
		Many people also wore the pink buttons bearing an image of Sjodin smiling and the words, "Come home, Dru Sjodin," part of a fiercely determined effort to keep her name and face before the public in the five months she was missing.
		Sjodin's body was found April 17 in a deep, wooded ravine about 1 mile west of Crookston, Minn., almost at the start of the first large-scale search by law enforcement officers and volunteers since mass searches were suspended with the onset of winter in mid-December.
	www.startribune.com /10086/story/528531.html (788 words)

	CNN.com - Sheriff: 'No chance we'll find Dru alive' - Dec. 9, 2003
		A shoe belonging to Sjodin was found beneath a bridge near a river, Hill said.
		Sjodin, of Pequot Lakes, Minnesota, was last heard from while talking to her boyfriend on a cell phone that day after she left her job at a Victoria's Secret store.
		In addition, a fl loafer belonging to Sjodin was found beneath a bridge along the bank of the Red Lake River in the days after her disappearance.
	www.cnn.com /2003/LAW/12/09/missing.student/index.html (965 words)

	You Will Be The Next Murder Victim!!! - s5000.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dru Sjodin was 22 years old and a student at the University of North Dakota.
		Although Dru Sjodin’s case is not unique, it proves that it doesn’t matter how old, or where you are, you can become a murder victim in the time it takes to say hello to your abductor or murderer.
		Dru Sjodin was 22 years old when she was abducted,.
	www.s5000.com /what_the_huck/408/dru_sjodin.php (1690 words)

	Dru Sjodin Information
		Dru Kathrina Sjodin (September 26, 1981 - November 22, 2003), a student from the University of North Dakota (UND), was a victim of kidnapping, sexual assault, and murder.
		On December 2, a suspect, 50-year-old registered level III sex offender Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr., was arrested in connection with Sjodin's disappearance.
		Sjodin's body was recovered April 17, 2004 just west of Crookston, Minnesota when deep snow drifts began to melt.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Dru_Sjodin (347 words)

	Prosecutor: Dru Sjodin fought for her life before she was killed on CourtTV.com
		Medical examiner Dr. Michael McGee testified during the trial that he believed Sjodin was stabbed in the neck at the ravine where her body was found, though he acknowledged he could not pinpoint the exact cause of her death because her body was decomposed.
		Prosecutors said Sjodin's hands had been bound behind her back and she was nude from the waist down, in a coat with a rope tied around her neck and remnants of a plastic bag when she was found.
		Hoy suggested Sjodin suffocated after the bag was placed over her head, and that the bag was used to try to prevent her from identifying her attacker and not to kill her.
	www.courttv.com /news/2006/0830/dru_sjodin_ap.html (525 words)

	Welcome to the Official Site of The Dru Campaign
		The Dru Campaign offers a space for advocates, survivors, and their allies to share information and campus activist projects, learn and dialogue about issues related to sexual assault, honor the memories of all victims of sexual assault.
		The Dru Campaign web site is designed to serve as a resource for finding information on gender-violence and related policy issues, connecting activists throughout the country, and is the home of the Dru Award, a bi-annual award to support campus activists in their efforts to raise awareness about sexual assault.
		Dru Sjodin, named for her grandfather Drew, was born September 26, 1981.
	www.drucampaign.org /dru (701 words)

	jameson's WebbSleuths - Dru Sjodin - body found
		Dru K. Sjodin was born September 26, 1981 in Minneapolis, MN to Allan Sjodin and Linda (Sutfin) Walker.
		He said that Sjodin had cuts or bruises on her neck, arms and face, and "slash wounds to the front of her neck caused by a knife drawn across the neck." There also was a knife wound on her right side.
		Sjodin was found nude from the waist down, her hands tied behind her back, and a plastic bad tied over her head with a rope.
	www.webbsleuths.org /dcforum/DCForumID18/109.html (6536 words)

	USATODAY.com - Man charged with Sjodin kidnapping could face federal murder charge
		Sjodin was last seen leaving a North Dakota shopping mall, but her body was found Saturday in Minnesota, indicating the crime may have crossed state lines.
		Investigators have testified that they found blood matching Sjodin's DNA in Rodriguez's car, and that a knife in the car matched a sheath discovered near her car.
		Sjodin, of Pequot Lakes, Minn., had last been heard talking to her boyfriend on a cell phone after she left her job at a Victoria's Secret on Nov. 22.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-04-17-sjodin_x.htm (542 words)

	Dru Sjodin's Killer Gets Death Penalty - News Story - WNBC \| New York
		Sjodin's boss told jurors that Dru finished her work shift at Victoria's Secret at the mall at 4 p.m.
		Sjodin then did not show up for work, so her roommate called the police.
		Sjodin's body was found the following April in a ravine near Crookston, in northwestern Minnesota.
	www.wnbc.com /news/9911254/detail.html (608 words)

	wcco.com - Dru Sjodin's Body Found (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bob Heales, a private investigator who has coordinated search efforts for the Sjodin family, said the body was found in a ravine near a county road northwest of Crookston.
		Lang was the last person known to have heard from Sjodin, when she spoke to him by cell phone after leaving the Victoria's Secret where she worked.
		The Sjodin case has led North Dakota and Minnesota officials to re-examine laws dealing with the commitment of sex offenders.
	wcco.com /topstories/local_story_108140659.html (691 words)

	Dru Sjodin's Killer Gets Death Penalty - National News Story - WVIT \| Hartford
		Sjodin's boss told jurors that Dru finished her work shift at Victoria's Secret at the mall at 4 p.m.
		Sjodin then did not show up for work, so her roommate called the police.
		Sjodin's body was found the following April in a ravine near Crookston, in northwestern Minnesota.
	www.nbc30.com /nationalnews/9911254/detail.html (520 words)

	MPR: Dru Sjodin laid to rest
		It was one of the few places near Dru Sjodin's home town of Pequot Lakes big enough for her funeral.
		Dru Sjodin was recalled as a young woman with a generous heart and an infectious spirit.
		Dru Sjodin was buried in Pinewood Cemetery in Crosslake.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2004/04/24_robertsont_sjodinfuneral (671 words)

	kutv.com - Testimony Set To Begin In Dru Sjodin Case (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In a copyright story Monday, Fargo's WDAY radio said court documents show Sjodin, 22, was beaten and raped after she was abducted in the parking lot of the mall in Grand Forks in November 2003.
		The body of Sjodin, of Pequot Lakes, Minn., was found in April 2004, in a ravine near Crookston, Minn., where Rodriguez, 53, was living with his mother.
		Investigators have said that evidence against Rodriguez includes traces of Sjodin's DNA in blood in the defendant's car, along with a knife found in the trunk that matched a sheath found near Sjodin's car.
	kutv.com /national/topstories_story_226123401.html (737 words)

	TwinCities.com \| 07/07/2006 \| Dru Sjodin case at a glance
		April 17: Sjodin's body is found in a ditch near a county road northwest of Crookston.
		24: Sjodin's family notifies the state of Minnesota that it plans to file a wrongful-death lawsuit over the way her alleged murderer was released from prison.
		Dru Sjodin's disappearance and the arrest of Alfonso Rodriguez Jr.
	www.twincities.com /mld/twincities/news/local/14979944.htm (619 words)

	cbs2chicago.com - Jurors Okay Death Option For Dru Sjodin Killer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sjodin, 22, of Pequot Lake, Minn., was a University of North Dakota student when she was abducted from the parking lot of a Grand Forks, N.D., shopping mall on Nov. 22, 2003.
		Jurors were asked to answer eight questions in deciding whether Rodriguez was eligible for the death penalty, including whether he planned to kill Sjodin and whether he caused serious bodily injury to two women he assaulted in 1974.
		Rodriguez's attorney, Richard Ney, said Sjodin's death was horrible but did not meet the legal requirements of eligibility for the death penalty.
	cbs2chicago.com /topstories/topstories_story_250144908.html (398 words)

	Dru Sjodin
		Dru Sjodin (born 1981) is a student from the University of North Dakota who is suspected to have been a crime victim.
		Sjodin is reported dissapeared, and her dissapearance garnered great media coverage.
		A recent photo of Dru Sjodin, which has been displayed widely by the media, shows her wearing short, blond hair.
	www.pheeds.com /info/guide/d/dr/dru_sjodin.html?ronzta (207 words)

	StarTribune.com \| Dru Sjodin Trial
		Rodriguez sentenced to die for killing Dru Sjodin
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		U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson, 47, a native of Thief River Falls, Minn., is a former county and state district judge in North Dakota.
	www.startribune.com /sjodin (274 words)

	keyetv.com - Judge Formally Sentences Dru Sjodin's Killer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Before the sentencing, about 15 of Sjodin's relatives and friends spoke about her life and the impact of her death.
		Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., 53, was convicted by a jury last fall of kidnapping resulting in the death of Dru Sjodin.
		Dru Sjodin, a University of North Dakota student, disappeared from the parking lot of a Grand Forks shopping mall in November 2003.
	keyetv.com /topstories/topstories_story_039122224.html (457 words)

	MPR: Region mourns Dru Sjodin
		Dru Sjodin's sorority sisters hung this sign outside the Gamma Phi Beta house in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
		Sjodin was a member of the sorority at the University of North Dakota.
		The Sjodin case has captivated the state and much of the nation since she disappeared five months ago.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2004/04/23_rehab_sjodincase (755 words)

	CNN.com - Guard searches snowy fields, roads for Dru Sjodin - Dec. 13, 2003
		At the same time, investigators were trying to retrace the steps of a convicted rapist charged with kidnapping the 22-year-old, Dru Sjodin.
		Grand Forks County Sheriff Dan Hill has said Sjodin is probably dead -- her blood was found in the suspect's car -- but there has been no sign of a body.
		Sjodin, a University of North Dakota student from Pequot Lakes, Minnesota, was last heard from November 22 as she spoke to her boyfriend by cell phone as was leaving the Grand Forks mall where she worked.
	cnn.com /2003/US/Central/12/13/missing.student.ap (588 words)

	Geographical Profile in the Dru Sjodin Murder Case, North Dakota (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Sjodin case is the first time that geographical profiling had been used to pinpoint the area where authorities should search for a body.
		Dru's body was found 1 mile from the predicted area.
		Just two days before police found her body authorities discovered that the prime suspect was raised on a farm just down the road from the location where Dru's shoe was found.
	www.investigativepsych.com /drugeoprofile.htm (181 words)

	Rodriguez sentenced to die for killing Dru Sjodin
		Allan Sjodin said the family would have been "equally satisfied" with whatever the jury decided.
		Chris Lang, the boyfriend whose final conversation with Dru Sjodin, a cell phone call, was interrupted when she was grabbed at knifepoint by Rodriguez, said "Dru got the verdict she deserves."
		Eight of the 12 jurors accepted as a mitigating factor Ney's plea for mercy, but by their unanimous verdict for death they said feelings of mercy failed to outweigh the aggravating factors.
	www.startribune.com /462/v-print/story/694473.html (1257 words)

	Dru Sjodin murder trial begins in N.D. - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com
		Sjodin’s body was found in April 2004, in a ravine near Crookston, Minn., where Rodriguez, 53, was living with his mother.
		Sjodin died of suffocation, the wound to her neck, or possibly from exposure to the weather, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Keith Reisenauer.
		But he argued that the case should be in state court, not federal court, and that Sjodin died near the Grand Forks parking lot where she disappeared and not in Minnesota.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/14348581 (531 words)

	Grand Forks Herald \| 10/01/2005 \| DRU SJODIN: Racial bias or mercy
		Rodriguez, 52, a convicted sex offender, is charged with kidnapping resulting in the death of Sjodin, 22, of Pequot Lakes, Minn. He has pleaded not guilty.
		Sjodin, a UND student, disappeared in November 2003 from a mall in Grand Forks.
		Sjodin's mother, Linda Walker, and her father, Allan Sjodin, attended Friday's hearing.
	www.mercurynews.com /mld/grandforks/news/special_packages/dru_sjodin/archive/12789491.htm (595 words)

	Dru Sjodin's Killer Sentenced to Death (September 22, 2006)
		By the necessary unanimous vote, a federal jury this morning sentenced Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr to death by lethal injection for the 2003 murder of Dru Sjodin.
		Dru Sjodin, a 22-year-old University of North Dakota student, left her job at Victoria's Secret at the Columbia Mall in Grand Forks ND around 4pm on November 22, 2003 (complete timeline).
		Defense: Sympathy for Dru Sjodin and her family can't be a factor in deciding whether to impose the death penalty
	www.allinfoaboutcrime.com /index.php?page=092206_sentenced_to_death (450 words)

	FOXNews.com - Missing N.D. Student Dru Sjodin Found - U.S. & World
		Bob Heales, a private investigator who has coordinated search efforts for the Sjodin family, said the body was found in a ravine near a county road northwest of Crookston.
		Lang was the last person known to have heard from Sjodin, when she spoke to him by cell phone after leaving the Victoria's Secret where she worked.
		Convicted sex offender Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., (search) 51, of Crookston, has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping Sjodin, of Pequot Lakes, Minn. He was arrested in December and is jailed in Grand Forks, about 25 miles northwest of Crookston, on $5 million bail.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,117398,00.html (865 words)

	ABC News: Spring Brings New Hope to Dru Sjodin Case
		Sjodin's family still holds hope that she will be found alive, but have resigned themselves to the likelihood that she is dead.
		Dru Sjodin's disappearance generated national headlines largely because of its chilling eeriness.
		Sjodin was last seen walking in the parking lot of the Columbia Mall in Grand Forks on Nov. 22.
	abcnews.go.com /US/story?id=96765&page=1 (434 words)

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