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Friday, January 4, 2013

UPDATED: Victim Identified in Eagan Murder Investigation

Jonathan Thomas Lahr, 36, died on Jan. 1 following a fight with his roommate. The roommate, Samuel Walter Petersen, was released from custody yesterday.

Follow Eagan Patch on Twitter | Like us on Facebook | Sign up for our daily newsletter | Blog for us The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's office has identified the 36-year-old man who died Jan. 1 following a physical altercation with his roommate. The victim, Jonathan Thomas Lahr, of Eagan, suffered facial injuries and could not be resuscitated by paramedics and fire personnel at the scene. Police say Lahr fought with 28-year-old Samuel Walter Petersen just prior to Lahr's death. Petersen and two other individuals were detained for questioning following the incident, but no charges have yet been filed against any of the three men. Petersen—the only one of the three identified in the investigation—was released from custody yesterday …

Friday, December 14, 2012

Cracking the Case: 1989 Murder With Ties to Eagan to be Featured on TV Show

The program, on Discovery Investigates, will be shown at 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15.

Follow Eagan Patch on Twitter | Like us on Facebook | Sign up for our daily newsletter| Blog for us The 1989 murder of woman who disappeared from Woodbury is the subject of an upcoming cable TV program. The Investigation Discovery show Motives & Murders: Cracking the Case will feature the homicide of Sharon Bloom. She worked at a 3M building in Woodbury and was killed by one of her co-workers, Woodbury police told Patch. Cmdr. Jay Alberio with the Woodbury PD was working the streets at that time. He said the murder was suspected to have taken place in Eagan. The body was dumped in a cornfield in Rice County, he said. He recalled that she lived in Minneapolis. Nick Godwin, head of documentaries for Cineflix, said the fact that it was “a …

Debbie Sorensen

2:01 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013

13 years to solve a murder? the keys belonging to Bloom found in the suspects house could not be used as evidence? seems like protocols & laws need to be changed   more ›

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