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Speaker 2: M Ground Forks in North Dakota is a city shaped
Speaker 2: by both natural beauty and natural disaster. Founded in eighteen seventy,
Speaker 2: this prairie community grew from a humble frontier trading post
Speaker 2: into a thriving university town. It was home to the
Speaker 2: University of North Dakota and almost sixty thousand residents by
Speaker 2: the early two thousands. The city had weathered the devastating
Speaker 2: flood of nineteen ninety seven, which forced the evacuation of
Speaker 2: fifty thousand people and left much of downtown underwater, but
Speaker 2: Grand Forks rebuilt stronger and more resilient. By two thousand
Speaker 2: and three, life had returned to normal rhythms in Grand Forks.
Speaker 2: The Columbia Mall had become the heart of the community's
Speaker 2: retail life, a sprawling complex that opened in nineteen seventy
Speaker 2: eight and served not just the city but shoppers from
Speaker 2: across the region. On any given day, you'd found families
Speaker 2: browsing the anchor stores, teenagers gathering at the food court,
Speaker 2: and workers grabbing lunch between shifts. The mall's vast parking
Speaker 2: lot buzzed with activity, a safe cars under the endless
Speaker 2: Dakota sky. But on one cold November evening in two
Speaker 2: thousand and three, that familiar scene would become the backdrop
Speaker 2: for something far more sinister. The temperature had dropped well
Speaker 2: below freezing, and a bitter wind swept across the parking
Speaker 2: lot as shoppers hurried to their vehicles, breath visible in
Speaker 2: the frigid air. Among them was a young woman making
Speaker 2: her way across the asphalt towards her car. She had
Speaker 2: her cell phone pressed to her ear as she spoke
Speaker 2: with her boyfriend. Their conversation was routine, the comfortable chatter
Speaker 2: of two people who talked every single day. She was
Speaker 2: telling him about her day, about heading home, about the cold,
Speaker 2: but then suddenly her voice changed. She said, oh my God,
Speaker 2: in a panic tone. Then the line went dead. Drucia
Speaker 2: Dane was born on the twenty six of September nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty one in this quiet town of Pequot Lakes in Minnesota.
Speaker 2: She was the daughter of Alan Shedane and Linda Walker,
Speaker 2: and from the beginning, Drew radiated at warmth that seemed
Speaker 2: to draw people in. She had an older brother Sven,
Speaker 2: and the two were inseparable. More than just siblings, they
Speaker 2: were best friends. Sven would later recall, she had that
Speaker 2: ability to attract people. People just loved who she was.
Speaker 2: We were both extroverted, but she had this smile, this
Speaker 2: way of leaning in when she talked to you, that
Speaker 2: made you feel like you'd known her your whole life.
Speaker 2: Although Alan and Linda's marriage eventually came to an end,
Speaker 2: it never fractured the family. They remained close friends, even
Speaker 2: attending dinners together after they remarried. That sense of harmony
Speaker 2: in love was something that Drew carried with her into
Speaker 2: every corner of her own life. As a child, she
Speaker 2: was spontaneous and endlessly kind. She was a kind of
Speaker 2: girl who would sit at the kitchen table making little
Speaker 2: cards and drawings for her friends and family just to
Speaker 2: brighten their day. Her artistic strake earned her the nickname Doodles,
Speaker 2: while others affectionately called her Drowsy. At high school, Drew's
Speaker 2: energy and spirit shawn even brighter. She excelled academically, becoming
Speaker 2: an honor student, and her classmates crowned her homecoming queen.
Speaker 2: But she wasn't just the picture perfect student. She was
Speaker 2: also a dedicated athlete with the love for basketball, volleyball,
Speaker 2: and golf. By the time Drew graduated in two thousand,
Speaker 2: she had already built a reputation as someone who could
Speaker 2: balance grace, intelligence, and athleticism without ever losing her dawn
Speaker 2: to earth nature. She went on to study graphic design
Speaker 2: at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. There
Speaker 2: she joined the Gama Phoebeta sorority. One of her sorority sisters, Randy,
Speaker 2: said of her, even if she didn't know you, she'd
Speaker 2: give you a smile. Randy admitted the Drews beauty was
Speaker 2: the kind that might have intimidated others, but it didn't.
Speaker 2: She explained, she was one of those girls you wanted
Speaker 2: to hate, but you just couldn't. Another friend, Odo van
Speaker 2: Hoff remembered how quickly Drew connected with people. She said,
Speaker 2: you could get to know her instantly. You could talk
Speaker 2: to her about anything. While balancing her classes, dre report
Speaker 2: herself into causes that mattered. Through her sorority, she worked
Speaker 2: with underprivileged teens, helped kindergarteners and first graders learned to read,
Speaker 2: and raised money for organizations such as the American Diabetes Association.
Speaker 2: She even volunteered for events that raised awareness about violence
Speaker 2: against women and children. Drew also worked two jobs, one
Speaker 2: at a Victoria's Secret store in the Columbia Mall and
Speaker 2: another as a waitress at a local spot called El Rocco.
Speaker 2: Somehow she managed to carry a full course load, give
Speaker 2: her time to others, and still make space for joy.
Speaker 2: She loved learning, always eager to ask questions, always curious
Speaker 2: print production, electronic publishing. Anything that allowed her to bland
Speaker 2: art with technology fascinated her. She even interned with the
Speaker 2: university's aviation program, which gave her the chance to travel.
Speaker 2: By the spring of two thousand and three, Drew was
Speaker 2: twenty two years old and on the cusp of finishing
Speaker 2: her degree. She had been set to graduate in May,
Speaker 2: but when she learned of a special opportunity, a photography
Speaker 2: class that would take her to Australia, she chose to
Speaker 2: delay her graduation until August. At the time, Drew lived
Speaker 2: off campus with her close friend Meg Murphy. Her days
Speaker 2: were filled with lectures, studying, work, and volunteer projects, but
Speaker 2: she always found time for the people who mattered the most.
Speaker 2: Among them was her boyfriend Chris Lang. Drew had met
Speaker 2: Chris the previous summer in her hometown, where he had
Speaker 2: taken a seasonal job. Chris was from the Twin Cities area.
Speaker 2: Unlike so many others, he had been drawn to Drew's smile,
Speaker 2: but it was more than that. Chris recalled how Drew
Speaker 2: made him feel seen, valued, important. He later said she
Speaker 2: was just a great example of somebody raised by a wonderful,
Speaker 2: loving family, and for Drew, the feelings were mutual. She
Speaker 2: told friends that she might have met the man she
Speaker 2: was going to marry. She could see a future with Chris,
Speaker 2: but Drew had no way of knowing that she wouldn't
Speaker 2: live to see a future with anybody. It was an
Speaker 2: ordinary Saturday afternoon on November twenty second, two thousand and three,
Speaker 2: at the Columbia Mall in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The
Speaker 2: holiday shopping season was already beginning to stir. Inside the
Speaker 2: Victoria's Secret Store, Drew Shdaine was finishing her shift. She
Speaker 2: was known for her bright smile behind the counter, but
Speaker 2: at around four o'clock she clocked out and slipped into
Speaker 2: the cool air of the early evening. Before heading home,
Speaker 2: Drew stopped at Marshall Fields, a department store just across
Speaker 2: from where she worked. She picked out a new purse,
Speaker 2: patted the register, and then walked back across the parking
Speaker 2: lot towards her car and nineteen ninety four old mobile Cutlass.
Speaker 2: Somewhere along that walk, Drew's phone rang. On the other
Speaker 2: end of the line was her boyfriend, Chris. The two
Speaker 2: shatted casually. Drew told him that she was heading to
Speaker 2: her car, but then there was silence. Chris said her
Speaker 2: name a few times, confused. That's when he heard her
Speaker 2: voice again, quick and sharp as she said okay, okay,
Speaker 2: Then just a breath later, oh my god, then the
Speaker 2: line went dead. Chris stared at his phone. He tried
Speaker 2: to call Drew back. Each time it just rang and rang.
Speaker 2: Drew never answered. Worried, Chris reached out to Drew's roommate,
Speaker 2: asking her to let him know when Drew got home,
Speaker 2: but she never came back. Ours passed. Chris's anxiety grew heavier,
Speaker 2: and then another phone call. It was Drew's number, really
Speaker 2: flooded him as he picked up, but there was no
Speaker 2: voice on the other end of the line. All he
Speaker 2: could hear was static and the muffled sounds of buttons
Speaker 2: being pressed. By then, Drew should have been starting her
Speaker 2: evening shift at Al Roccu, the local bar where she
Speaker 2: worked part time, but Drew never showed up. Now Chris's
Speaker 2: worry turned to fear. Drew wasn't the kind of person
Speaker 2: to ignore her phone. She wasn't the kind to just vanish.
Speaker 2: He called her friends, hoping that somebody had seen her,
Speaker 2: but nobody had. He in her roommate, Meg then called
Speaker 2: nine one one.
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Speaker 1: to be all like a couple hours ago.
Speaker 2: The search for Drew began immediately. Detectives knew that the
Speaker 2: first hours after a disappearance were critical. With Drew's abandoned
Speaker 2: phone calls in her sudden silence, they quickly suspected the
Speaker 2: worst that Drew had been abducted. Their first stop was
Speaker 2: the Columbia Mall. Her automobile was still there in the
Speaker 2: parking lot. The passenger door was unlocked. A shopping bag
Speaker 2: from marshall Field sat inside the front seat, untouched. But
Speaker 2: behind the car, detectives found something that stopped them in
Speaker 2: their tracks. It was a black nylon sheathe marked with
Speaker 2: the Words tool shop. It belonged to a folding lock
Speaker 2: blade knife. It was a small clue, but it painted
Speaker 2: a grim picture. Drew had made it safely back to
Speaker 2: her car, and then something happened. Detectives pulled security footage
Speaker 2: from inside the mall. Drew could be seen walking through
Speaker 2: Victoria's Secret and later at Marshall Fields. She was alone
Speaker 2: and nobody appeared to be following her, but outside the
Speaker 2: cameras were sparse the parking lot offered little hell. Investigators
Speaker 2: turned to the strange second call, the one that Chris
Speaker 2: had received ours later with nothing, but the static celtar
Speaker 2: data showed that the call pinged off atar near Fisher And, Minnesota,
Speaker 2: around twenty five miles from Grand Forks, and for nearly
Speaker 2: twenty four rs, druce phone remained in that area, but
Speaker 2: Tree had no reason to be there, and if she
Speaker 2: wasn't in her own car, it meant that somebody else
Speaker 2: had taken her there. Detective Mike Sholes explained, it's not
Speaker 2: uncommon for people to go missing for a variety of reasons,
Speaker 2: but certain characteristics of this case demand immediate attention. So
Speaker 2: in all points, bullet And went out. Law enforcement agencies
Speaker 2: across the region were notified.
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Speaker 2: the ground, deputies from Polk County and Grand Forks County, University, Police,
Speaker 2: and even the FBI coordinated search efforts. They began in Fisher,
Speaker 2: sweeping in eight mile radius around Fisher's Landing, a small
Speaker 2: riverside community on the Red River lined with woodland and marshland.
Speaker 2: Bloodhounds traced sends along the water's edge, their handlers pushing
Speaker 2: into the dense underbrush ATVs roared down dirt tracks where
Speaker 2: cars couldn't go. Searchers spread out across farmland, abandoned buildings,
Speaker 2: and roadside ditches. We're going to find this girl, Officer
Speaker 2: Trent s Sheckler told reporters that were gathered at the scene. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: Drew's face filled the media. Flowers went up across North
Speaker 2: Dakota and Minnesota. News broadcasts describe her in careful detail
Speaker 2: the day she vanished, who had been wearing black slacks,
Speaker 2: black loafers, and a pink and purple v neck blouse
Speaker 2: over it. She wore a black blay as her style jacket,
Speaker 2: and she carried a small black handbag. But despite the urgency,
Speaker 2: the days dragged on without any answers. Detectives widened the search.
Speaker 2: Volunteers joined in, coming through back roads, drainage, ditches, and fields.
Speaker 2: Lieutenant Byron Sever voiced what everyone was thinking. We're going
Speaker 2: to search every inch of the ditches. You don't know
Speaker 2: where she might be at. You just hope for the best,
Speaker 2: but every minute is precious mean. While Drew's family issued
Speaker 2: a plea for help, offering a twenty thousand dollar reward
Speaker 2: for her return, her mother Linda, spoke through tears, she's
Speaker 2: very responsible. This is totally out of character for her.
Speaker 2: But as each day passed, the hope of finding Drew
Speaker 2: safegrewed dimm What began as a regular Saturday had turned
Speaker 2: into a nightmare that now stretched across two states, and
Speaker 2: as the search widened, so too did the questions, who
Speaker 2: had taken Drew Shadeen and where was she now? At
Speaker 2: the University of North Dakota, the mood was heavy. By
Speaker 2: Monday morning, the story of Drew's disappearance had spread across
Speaker 2: the campus. Students whispered to one another in hallways asking
Speaker 2: the same question, did you hear what happened to Drew?
Speaker 2: Drew had been so well known, so present, that the
Speaker 2: news felt unreal. She wasn't just another face in the
Speaker 2: lecture hall. She was the person who smiled at you
Speaker 2: in passing, who leaned in when she talked to you,
Speaker 2: like you were already friends. Brae Hearing, a junior, tried
Speaker 2: to put it into words. You hear about this stuff
Speaker 2: on the news, but it doesn't hit home because you
Speaker 2: don't know a person who was abducted. When you can
Speaker 2: put a face to the name and picture her sitting
Speaker 2: in class, it's strange. Her sorority sisters hung a sign
Speaker 2: that read Pray for Drew. The university announced counseling for students,
Speaker 2: and that night, around three hundred and fifty people crowded
Speaker 2: into the Christus Rex Lutheran campus, sent there for a
Speaker 2: vigil Candles flickered in the dim room as voices rose
Speaker 2: in prayer. But beneath that grief there was fear. It
Speaker 2: hadn't been midnight in some deserted alley when Drew vanished.
Speaker 2: It was broad daylight, five o'clock on a Saturday evening
Speaker 2: in a busy mall car park. Whoever had taken Drew
Speaker 2: was brazen, and that meant they could do it again.
Speaker 2: Drew's friends insisted she had no reason to be near Fisher,
Speaker 2: in Minnesota, where her cell phone had last pink. Her
Speaker 2: family said that she didn't know a soul there. Her
Speaker 2: friend Adam Shotts commented, she just wouldn't take off without
Speaker 2: letting anybody know. She's a great person. I don't know
Speaker 2: why anyone would want to do anything to hurt her.
Speaker 2: The shock rippled beyond the university across Grand Forks Fair
Speaker 2: translated into action. Seals of pepper spray stun guns and
Speaker 2: other self protection items exploded. It's beyond belief, said Jason
Speaker 2: Schultz at Home of Economy. He said that they normally
Speaker 2: sell some when college is back in season, but they'd
Speaker 2: sold eight years worth in just ten days. Meanwhile, the
Speaker 2: search around Fisher continued The town itself was little more
Speaker 2: than farmland, woods and the winding Red River, a quiet
Speaker 2: place that was now transformed into the center of a
Speaker 2: desperate man hunt. Hundreds of volunteers poured into help. People
Speaker 2: were bossed in from Grand Forks every hour, braving the
Speaker 2: biting cold. Drew's family searched alongside them, trudging through snow drifts,
Speaker 2: refusing to stop, but the elements worked against them. Temperatures plunged,
Speaker 2: the wind slicing so sharply that it felt like ten
Speaker 2: below zero. Still, volunteers were on their hands and knees
Speaker 2: combing frozen ground for the smallest clue. Investigators warned that
Speaker 2: the ping from Drew's cell phone didn't necessarily mean that
Speaker 2: she'd been in fissure at all. Sergeant Michael Hedlund explained,
Speaker 2: it could have been someone driving down the road and
Speaker 2: throwing the phone out the window. We don't know she's
Speaker 2: been here. We know the cell phone has been here. Still,
Speaker 2: the search pressed on the perimeter widened, reaching out to
Speaker 2: surrounding towns. Among them was Crookston, a small city twelve
Speaker 2: miles away, and on the twenty fifth of November, detectives
Speaker 2: found something beneath the Highway seventy five by pass Bridge
Speaker 2: lay a discarded shoe. Drew's family identified it immediately it
Speaker 2: belonged to Drew. The discovery brought no comfort, only dread.
Speaker 2: Two days later, as Thanksgiving approached, Drew's family and investigators
Speaker 2: renewed their play for information. Her father, Alan said, were
Speaker 2: overwhelmed by the generosity and the support of the Grand
Speaker 2: Forks community. There is in our hearts and our thoughts
Speaker 2: and prayers. We would like to have her home for
Speaker 2: a Thanksgiving reunion. But Thanksgiving came and went. While most
Speaker 2: students returned home, some of Drew's closest friends stayed behind,
Speaker 2: refusing to leave while she remained missing. Her family launched
Speaker 2: a website, found drew dot com, which featured her photographs,
Speaker 2: details of her abduction, and the number for the tip line.
Speaker 2: They also raised the reward fund dramatically, up to one
Speaker 2: hundred and forty thousand dollars for her safe return. Detectives
Speaker 2: now turned to another pressing question, who could have wanted
Speaker 2: the hurt Drew. By all accounts, she had no enemies.
Speaker 2: She was kind and welcoming. Nobody could think of anybody
Speaker 2: who would wish her harm. But then, as investigators began
Speaker 2: sp speaking with her co workers. One detail caught their attention,
Speaker 2: a victorious secret. Somebody had called the store in recent weeks.
Speaker 2: The caller had a foreign accent. He'd asked to speak
Speaker 2: to Dry directly. The call had been harassing in nature.
Speaker 2: Detectives began to dig deeper. They decided to come through
Speaker 2: the sex offender Registry for the area, a routaining but
Speaker 2: critical step in cases like this. It didn't take long
Speaker 2: before one name leapt off the page. He was local,
Speaker 2: he was high risk, and his PAS suggested he was
Speaker 2: capable of far worse than harassment. Alphonso Rodriguez Junior was
Speaker 2: born on the eighteenth of February nineteen fifty three, the
Speaker 2: second oldest of five children to a family of migrant workers.
Speaker 2: His father, Alphonso Senior, had only a third grade education,
Speaker 2: and he spoke Spanish. His mother, Lauris, had attended school
Speaker 2: only until the fourth grade, but she taught herself to
Speaker 2: Reid and speak English. For fifteen years, the family moved
Speaker 2: back and forth between Texas and the Red River Valley
Speaker 2: before settling in Crookston in Minnesota. Both parents worked long,
Speaker 2: grueling ours in the fields, leaving little time for the children,
Speaker 2: Rodriguez had a difficult start in life. He was small, fussy,
Speaker 2: and sickly. He couldn't tolerate breast milk, and doctors advised
Speaker 2: his mother to feed him rice water instead. By four
Speaker 2: months old, he was on the verge of starvation and
Speaker 2: diagnosed with failure to thrive. That early fragility seemed to
Speaker 2: shadow him throughout his life. He never learned to read
Speaker 2: or out properly, and struggled to meet basic developmental milestones.
Speaker 2: While his family was hard working, they were plagued by
Speaker 2: poverty and a range of physical and mental health challenges.
Speaker 2: Rodriguez himself would later be diagnosed with depression, diabetes, hand tremmers,
Speaker 2: and chemical dependency. Dolores described him as different, quiet, withdrawn
Speaker 2: out of step with the rest of the world. Once
Speaker 2: she worked in the fields, she would bring the children along,
Speaker 2: leaving them to play in the ditches. His sister, Sylvia
Speaker 2: recalled chasing frogs into tunnels and hiding from the crop
Speaker 2: dusting plains, whose chemicals sometimes landed on their skin and
Speaker 2: left a sticky residue. By the age of five, Rodriguez
Speaker 2: and his siblings were sent to a migrant children's camp
Speaker 2: while their parents worked. It was here that the first
Speaker 2: sexual abuse occurred, perpetrated by an older female. Sylvia later
Speaker 2: recounted witnessing the assault. Not long after, a man who
Speaker 2: rented their home forced Rodriguez and Sylvia into an outhouse
Speaker 2: and coerced them into fondling him. Rodriguez had tried to
Speaker 2: protect his cyst there, but even at such a young
Speaker 2: age that trauma began to shape him, and the abuse
Speaker 2: didn't stop. At age six, Rodriguez was molested by a
Speaker 2: college aged woman at a church camp. The next year,
Speaker 2: a teenage boy sexually assaulted him. The repeated trauma, combined
Speaker 2: with the childhood of neglect, left deep scars that would
Speaker 2: follow him into his adulthood. By age nine, the family
Speaker 2: had relocated to Croxton and Minnesota. Dolores worked evening shifts
Speaker 2: in a restaurant kitchen, leaving the children largely to their
Speaker 2: own devices. Their father arrived home late and was physically abusive,
Speaker 2: frequently beating Rodrigurez and calling him stupid. In response, Rodriguez
Speaker 2: often retreated further into himself. He self medicated with alcohol
Speaker 2: and drugs, including acid, hash, and marijuana, and he scavenged
Speaker 2: for food and entertainment. At the local dump school was
Speaker 2: said to be another battlefield. He walked with a limp,
Speaker 2: one leg shorter than the other, and his hands shook
Speaker 2: form tremors. He was an easy target for the bullies,
Speaker 2: who kicked, pushed, and mocked him relentlessly. One cruel episode
Speaker 2: involved classmates threatening to paint him with white paint because
Speaker 2: of the color of his skin. Rodriguez had few friends
Speaker 2: and often sat on the sidelines watching the other children play.
Speaker 2: His younger siblings quickly surpassed him in school, and his
Speaker 2: brother Paco later admitted he was embarrassed by him by
Speaker 2: every measure. He was an outsider, small, fragile, lonely, and
Speaker 2: haunted by the hardships and abuse of his early years.
Speaker 2: It was a childhood marked by deprivation, cruelty, and isolation,
Speaker 2: one that would later leave its shadow on the choices
Speaker 2: he made as an adult and the crimes that he
Speaker 2: would commit. By the time Alfonso Rodriguez Junior reached the
Speaker 2: age of eighteen, the first cracks in his violent trajectory
Speaker 2: had already begun to appear. In nineteen seventy four, he
Speaker 2: was arrested for kidnapping and sexually assaulting two women at
Speaker 2: knife point. His methods were opportunistic but terrifyingly calculated. His
Speaker 2: first victim had agreed to give him a ride home,
Speaker 2: Trusting a stranger's polite demeanor, Rodriguez directed her to a
Speaker 2: secluded driveway. Then he grabbed her by the throat, pulled
Speaker 2: her into the back of the car, and attempted to
Speaker 2: rape her. Just a month later, he found another woman
Speaker 2: stranded outside a theater and offered to help her start
Speaker 2: her car. When she accepted, he forced his way into
Speaker 2: her vehicle, drove her into a remote area, threatened her
Speaker 2: with a knife, and then sexually assaulted her. After these attacks,
Speaker 2: Rodriguez was sent to the State Security Hospital in Saint Peter, Minnesota. There,
Speaker 2: he revealed to a psychologist that before the assaults, he
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Speaker 2: aggression issue, although he claimed he could control his impulses,
Speaker 2: but his past actions suggested it otherwise. On the ninth
Speaker 2: of April nineteen eighty, he was released on a pass
Speaker 2: to his parents' home in Croxton. Only four days later,
Speaker 2: he approached a woman for directions. When she refused to cooperate,
Speaker 2: he grabbed her arm and threatened get in the car
Speaker 2: or I'm going to kill you. She struggled, and in response,
Speaker 2: Rodriguez stabbed her in the arm AND's stomach. By some
Speaker 2: stroke of luck, she managed to escape. Rodriguez was convicted
Speaker 2: of kidnapping and aggravated assault. During a sentencing hearing, he
Speaker 2: requested a return to Saint Peter rather than be sent
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Speaker 2: will always need treatment of some kind and I would
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Speaker 2: allowed to roam free in our society. Rodriguez was sentenced
Speaker 2: to twenty three years in prison, yet in those decades
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Speaker 2: but he refused programs designed to address his sexual aggression.
Speaker 2: Prison offered structure but no real rehabilitation, leaving the underlying
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Speaker 2: would spend all but approximately three and a half years incarcerated.
Speaker 2: By the early two thousands, he had become all too
Speaker 2: familiar with the routines and rules of the penal system,
Speaker 2: but freedom remained an alien concept even he feared it.
Speaker 2: He confided to a prison psychologist, I want to be
Speaker 2: locked up, but not locked up. This revealed the anxious
Speaker 2: tension that would follow him into the outside world. His
Speaker 2: family was also on it easy They contacted the Minnesota
Speaker 2: Department of Corrections to voice their concerns over his eminent
Speaker 2: release and lack of supervision. His sister called local police
Speaker 2: repeatedly and pleaded with them to monitor him. She feared
Speaker 2: that he would strike again, but Sergeant Jerry Moreno informed
Speaker 2: her that once a person had served their sentence, there
Speaker 2: were no ties to probation, no system in place to
Speaker 2: enforce oversight. The Department of Corrections had the option to
Speaker 2: civilly commit Rodriguez given the risk he pose, but they
Speaker 2: chose not to their own experts had warned that his
Speaker 2: untraded sexual aggression, combined with a return to an environment
Speaker 2: lacking structure, could actually encourage further criminal behavior. Yet prison
Speaker 2: officials concluded that there was little in his conduct during
Speaker 2: incarceration to suggest imminent danger. So in May of two
Speaker 2: thousand and three, just six months before dru Shadin would
Speaker 2: be abducted, Rodriguez was released. He moved into his mother
Speaker 2: Dolores's home on Adams Street in Crooston, a tidy, quiet
Speaker 2: neighborhood where families had lived for decades. Dolores, who had
Speaker 2: once labored in the fields alongside her husband and children,
Speaker 2: was now well known in the community. She was polite,
Speaker 2: soft spoken, and always shared homemade Tomali's with her neighbors.
Speaker 2: Her husband had passed away, leaving her to manage the
Speaker 2: household alone, with Alphonso's presence now a stark reminder of
Speaker 2: the past. Rodriguez's release came with conditions. As a Level
Speaker 2: three sex offender, he was required to register with law
Speaker 2: enforcement for ten years, reporting his address, vehicle, and employment.
Speaker 2: Neighbors initially noticed little out of the ordinary. Alissa Cardinal,
Speaker 2: who lived nearby, recalled, you never saw him unless he
Speaker 2: was mowing the lawn or trimming the plants in the front.
Speaker 2: Appearances were deceptive. Behind the quiet, methodical routines of his days,
Speaker 2: Rodriguez carried a history of unchecked aggression, devian impulses, and
Speaker 2: violent urges. For decades. His life had been a cycle
Speaker 2: of abuse, trauma, and institutionalization, leaving him ill equipped to
Speaker 2: navigate the world safely. The calm he projected in the
Speaker 2: neighborhood masked the danger simmering beneath, a danger that just
Speaker 2: months later would erupt with devastating consequences. Once detectives discovered
Speaker 2: that Alphonso Rodriguez Junior had been in the Vicinityond the
Speaker 2: day that Drew vanished, he quickly became the focus of
Speaker 2: their investigation. His history of abducting women he didn't know
Speaker 2: made him a person of interest, and investigators were determan
Speaker 2: to learn exactly where he had been that afternoon. Rodriguez
Speaker 2: had been scheduled to work hanging drywall at a construction
Speaker 2: site in Macintosh, Minnesota, but he hadn't shown up. Detectives
Speaker 2: contacted him and requested he come in for an interview.
Speaker 2: They asked him to account for his whereabouts on the
Speaker 2: evening of November twenty second, the day that Drew disappeared.
Speaker 2: Rodriguez initially claimed he had been at the cinema watching
Speaker 2: Once Upon a Time in Mexico from four point thirty
Speaker 2: eight to seven thirty pm at a theater not too
Speaker 2: far from the mall. He said he had stopped for
Speaker 2: a quick meal at McDonald's before heading back to his
Speaker 2: home in Crooston. On the surface, it seemed like a
Speaker 2: plausible alibi, but when detectives checked the story quickly unraveled.
Speaker 2: The movie he claimed to have seen that day hadn't
Speaker 2: been playing in any Grand Forks theaters. When confronted with
Speaker 2: this discrepancy, Rodriguez offered no explanation.
Speaker 1: Tell us that you into the movie theater, but that
Speaker 1: doesn't really pair out.
Speaker 2: We're having trouble finding me on.
Speaker 1: The McDonald's videotape, to think maybe you were acted.
Speaker 2: Somewhere else and.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: All he said was that he wasn't at the mall,
Speaker 2: but detectives had footage of him inside the mall. Authority
Speaker 2: soon obtained a search warrant for Rodriguez's car, a two
Speaker 2: thousand and two Mercury Sable sedan. The vehicle appeared clean,
Speaker 2: almost meticulously so, suggesting somebody had recently attempted to remove evidence.
Speaker 2: Inside the spare tire well, detectives found a black folding
Speaker 2: lock blade knife, the type that would normally have a
Speaker 2: tool shop sheath, but there was no sheath to be found.
Speaker 2: The knife was also found lying in a pool of
Speaker 2: household cleaner, as if somebody had tried to scrub it.
Speaker 2: Spotless bloodstains were discovered. On the back seat near the
Speaker 2: rear passenger window and in two other areas. DNA testing
Speaker 2: confirmed the worse. The blood and the knife contained Drew's DNA,
Speaker 2: with the evidence minding. Rodriguez was charged with kidnapping an
Speaker 2: order to be held on five million dollar bill. In court,
Speaker 2: his lawyers argued that he wanted to remain behind bars
Speaker 2: at least temporarily, citing concerns for his own safety. The
Speaker 2: arrest brought a chilling reality to Drew's family and friends
Speaker 2: hoped that she might still be alive plummeted. Her cousin
Speaker 2: Jason Nelson expressed, we're human, so we're scared when we
Speaker 2: learned of his history, But his history is also that
Speaker 2: he is not escalated to murder, so that leaves the
Speaker 2: family with hope that drystol out there. Winter tightened its
Speaker 2: grip on the region. The bitter cold and deep snow
Speaker 2: forced volunteer searchers to step back, leaving the National Guard
Speaker 2: to continue the efforts in humvies and insulated suits. Rob Keller,
Speaker 2: a spokesman for the North Dakota Army National Guard, said
Speaker 2: cold weather does make the job harder. One of the
Speaker 2: things we don't want to have happen is one of
Speaker 2: our soldiers get injured. By the twenty seventh of December,
Speaker 2: Drow's family had raised almost sixty thousand dollars to support
Speaker 2: search efforts, a testament to the community's determination and dedication.
Speaker 2: But beyond the immediate search, the case sparked broader conversations
Speaker 2: about public safety and legal protections. By January, lawmakers and
Speaker 2: prosecutors began examining the state's laws regarding repeat sex offenders.
Speaker 2: Cass County State's Attorney Birch Burdick explained the significance of
Speaker 2: the case. I don't think there's a prosecutor anywhere that
Speaker 2: isn't aware of what's going on in the Dru shadaiin
Speaker 2: matter and hasn't had an opportunity to think about what
Speaker 2: that means in their own community. The focus was on
Speaker 2: North Dakoda's nineteen ninety seven law, which allowed people deemed
Speaker 2: sexually dangerous by at least two experts to be held
Speaker 2: in definitely in the state hospital. In Jamestown. District judges
Speaker 2: preside over these civil commitment hearings, which can be initiated
Speaker 2: either before or after a criminal conviction. State penitentiary officials
Speaker 2: often evaluate sex offenders before release, assessing the risk they
Speaker 2: might pose. Since the laws enactment, twelve offenders had been
Speaker 2: committed under this provision. The shitting case prompted prosecutors in
Speaker 2: larger North Dakota cities to consider recommending more prisoners for
Speaker 2: civil commitment. By March, Drew's family, friends, and supporters appeared
Speaker 2: before the Senate Crime Prevention and Public Safety Committee and
Speaker 2: urged lawmakers to pass legislation imposing tougher penalties for sex offenders.
Speaker 2: Drew's boyfriend, Chris, spoke plainly about the gaps in the system.
Speaker 2: Somehow he got through the cracks of a system that
Speaker 2: doesn't seem to work. These people are walking time bombs.
Speaker 2: The resulting legislation created longer sentences for all sex offense
Speaker 2: and life sentences without parole for those who committed crimes
Speaker 2: targeting children or other vulnerable people. It also allowed for
Speaker 2: indeterminate sentences for individuals charged with lesser sex crimes. By
Speaker 2: the next month, the House had approved the bill, a
Speaker 2: somber legislative response to a tragedy that had already devastated
Speaker 2: a community. By spring, the relentless grip of winter had
Speaker 2: finally begun to loosen. The snow that had hindered so
Speaker 2: many search efforts slowly started to melt, revealing the frozen
Speaker 2: earth beneath. With the thaw came a renewed focus on
Speaker 2: a specific area west of Croxton, a site that had
Speaker 2: previously drawn the attention of search teams. It was in
Speaker 2: this area that a bloodhound named Calamity Jane had alerted
Speaker 2: to a cent. During the cold winter months, the snow
Speaker 2: at the time had been thirst searching almost impossible. On
Speaker 2: the morning of the seventeenth of April, searchers returned to
Speaker 2: the area, determined not to let another opportunity slip by.
Speaker 2: The focus was north of Polk County Road sixty one,
Speaker 2: roughly two miles from where Drew's shoe had been found
Speaker 2: months earlier. Among the searchers was Dick Roue, a retired
Speaker 2: debuty who had joined the effort early on. For Dick,
Speaker 2: the search had become personal. After months of scoring the countryside,
Speaker 2: Drew's case had come to feel like looking for his
Speaker 2: own daughter. That morning, Dick and a fellow searcher were
Speaker 2: navigating a steep ravine that fed into the Red Lake River.
Speaker 2: Dick had walked roughly seventy yards from the country road
Speaker 2: when something on a small plateau caught his eye. The
Speaker 2: plateau was about thirty feet below a steep drop, the
Speaker 2: kind of hidden vantage point that could easily be missed.
Speaker 2: I was up on top, and I just saw something black,
Speaker 2: Dick later recalled, carefully making it his weight on the slope.
Speaker 2: He approached the object, initially thinking it was a coat
Speaker 2: discarded by the wind, but as he drew closer, the
Speaker 2: horrifying reality became clear. Beneath the coat lay the body
Speaker 2: of Drew shading. She was nude from the waist down,
Speaker 2: with her hands bond behind her back. A rope ligature
Speaker 2: encircled her neck, remnants of a plastic Kmart shopping bag
Speaker 2: still clinging to it. Her body bore slash and stab
Speaker 2: wounds to the throat and side, as well as bruises
Speaker 2: across her right arm and the right side of her face.
Speaker 2: Nearby lay her cell phone and the other missing shoe.
Speaker 2: Dick remembered the moment vividly. I stood there and let
Speaker 2: it sink in a little bit. Even though that was
Speaker 2: what we were looking for, it was still a shock.
Speaker 2: The news of Drew's death spread like wildfire. While many
Speaker 2: had feared this outcome, its confirmation still hit the community
Speaker 2: like a physical blue. Drew's father, Alan expressed the mixture
Speaker 2: of grief and grim inevitability that the family had felt.
Speaker 2: It's bittersweet. It's kind of what we've been preparing ourselves for.
Speaker 2: We were waiting for that call, and when it came,
Speaker 2: we all stopped living for a second. Her boyfriend Chris
Speaker 2: echoed the same numbness. When I woke up this morning,
Speaker 2: I knew it would be today. With all these resources,
Speaker 2: we said we were going to bring her home, and
Speaker 2: we did. Now I know she's been at peace for
Speaker 2: a long time. A few days later, our friends and
Speaker 2: family gathered to celebrate Drew's life across Sagg Lutheran Church.
Speaker 2: The parking lot overflowed, cars lined the streets, and the
Speaker 2: solemn possession of mourners reflected the depth of the community's loss.
Speaker 2: Pink floor surrounded Drew's silver casket, and above it was
Speaker 2: a photograph of her smiling face. Following the public viewing,
Speaker 2: her funeral was held at the Grand View Lodge in Niswa,
Speaker 2: where her family and friends paid their final respects. While
Speaker 2: the community grave, federal prosecutors were already preparing a case
Speaker 2: against Alphonso Rodriguez Junior. In May, it was announced that
Speaker 2: he would be federally charged with kidnapping resulting in death,
Speaker 2: making him eligible for the death penalty, a rare and
Speaker 2: significant development. Neither North Dakota nor Minnesota, where Drew's body
Speaker 2: was found, allowed for capital punishment under state law. The
Speaker 2: trial would mark the first federal death penalty case in
Speaker 2: North Dakota in over a century. The case had repel
Speaker 2: effects far beyond the courtroom. Bob Hales, a private investigator
Speaker 2: who worked closely on Drew's case, began lawbying federal lawmakers
Speaker 2: to establish a national sex offender registry. The proposal aimed
Speaker 2: to provide the public with accessible information about sex offenders
Speaker 2: living nearby, a direct response to the tragedy that had
Speaker 2: struck Drew's family. The legislation, which was dubbed Drew's Law,
Speaker 2: was approved by House panel in July two thousand and five.
Speaker 2: The law became part of the Adam Walsh Child Protection Act,
Speaker 2: signed by President George W. Bush almost a year later.
Speaker 2: Drew's Law created the first national sex offender database, enabling
Speaker 2: the public to see where offenders lived and providing mechanisms
Speaker 2: to trace them. It established new minimum sentences for crimes
Speaker 2: against children, mandatory prison time for failing to register as
Speaker 2: a sex offender, and funded the use of GPS monitoring.
Speaker 2: It also mandated routine DNA collection from convicted sex offenders
Speaker 2: and created a federal database to match genetic material from
Speaker 2: child molesters. Victims of child abuse were granted the right
Speaker 2: to sue their abusers, marking one of the most sweeping
Speaker 2: legislative efforts to protect children in decades. Through the tragedy,
Speaker 2: Drew Shadein's name became a catalyst for change, a legacy
Speaker 2: that extended beyond grief, ensuring that future commit unities would
Speaker 2: have the tools to track and monitor those who preyed
Speaker 2: on the vulnerable. The federal kidnapping trial began on the
Speaker 2: fifteenth of August. During opening statements, defense attorney Robert Hoy
Speaker 2: attempted to dismantle the government's case before it even started.
Speaker 2: He told jurors that Druscha Dein had died too quickly
Speaker 2: for this to qualify as the federal crime. According to Hoi,
Speaker 2: prosecutors would never be able to prove that she was
Speaker 2: alive when Alphonso Rodriguez transported her across state lines the
Speaker 2: technical detail required for the charge of federal kidnapping. He
Speaker 2: claimed that Drew had been killed within minutes of her abduction,
Speaker 2: and that the transportation of a dead body simply didn't
Speaker 2: meet the definition of the statute. He argued, this is
Speaker 2: the wrong case in the wrong court. Even if jurors
Speaker 2: believed that Rodriguez was responsible, he said, they should acquit
Speaker 2: him on the federal charge. The government has to prove
Speaker 2: she was alive when transported, he told them, But prosecutor
Speaker 2: Keith Reisner flatly rejected this argument. He said that the
Speaker 2: evidence would prove beyond doubt that Rodriguez took Drew across
Speaker 2: state lines while still alive before raping her, stabbing her,
Speaker 2: and leaving her to die in the ditch. Forensic evidence
Speaker 2: soon painted a disturbing picture. Fibers from Drew's black coat
Speaker 2: were discovered in Rodriguez's car, while a hare on her
Speaker 2: coat matched his. DNA. Fibers from a blanket on Rodriguez's
Speaker 2: bed were consistent with those recovered on the knife sheaf
Speaker 2: found behind Drew's car. A pink cotton shirt found on
Speaker 2: Drew's body carried fibers that matched those from Rodriguez's car,
Speaker 2: his boots, and a pair of gloves seized from his home.
Speaker 2: Drew's blood was also discovered in his car and on
Speaker 2: the knife itself. Doctor Michael McGee, forensic scientists, presented damning testimony.
Speaker 2: His autopsy report made it unlikely that Drew had died
Speaker 2: in the parking lot where she was abducted. Instead, he
Speaker 2: concluded that her wounds were most likely inflicted at the
Speaker 2: ravine where her body was found. Blood patterns on her
Speaker 2: clothing and inside the car suggested she had been alive
Speaker 2: when she was transported. Defensive wounds on her forearms showed
Speaker 2: that she had fought back. McGee told jurors that she
Speaker 2: ultimately died from suffocation, a neck wound, or exposure, possibly
Speaker 2: a combination of all three. The evidence was overwhelming. After
Speaker 2: less than four hours of deliberation, the jury returned with
Speaker 2: a guilty verdict against Alphons over Driguez Junior, clearing the
Speaker 2: way for the penalty phase of the trial. Before sentencing began,
Speaker 2: the judge ruled that Rodriguez's family wouldn't be allowed to
Speaker 2: make emotional plays to save his life. Their statements, like
Speaker 2: those of Drew's family, would be stricted. During the penalty phase,
Speaker 2: the defense attempted to humanize Rodriguez. Psychologist Marilyn Hutchinson told
Speaker 2: the court that there were three Rodriguezes, one kind and thoughtful,
Speaker 2: another cocky and boastful, and a third angry and dangerous.
Speaker 2: She testified that Rodriguez had endured severe physical and psychological
Speaker 2: trauma from birth, leaving his brain and personality stunted at
Speaker 2: the level of a ten to thirteen year old child.
Speaker 2: She diagnosed him with post traumatic stress disorder, explaining the
Speaker 2: identity he established by default is I'm a failure. Living
Speaker 2: in the world day to day is impossible for him.
Speaker 2: Testimony about Rodriguez's upbringing also revealed sexual assaults he experienced
Speaker 2: as a child. Case worker Ted Michelson, who once supervised Rodriguez,
Speaker 2: said bluntly that he never should have been released from prison.
Speaker 2: The prosecution counjured this narrative with their own expert. Doctor
Speaker 2: Stephen Pitt, told jurors that Rodriguez didn't suffer from PTSD
Speaker 2: at all. Instead, he argued, Rodriguez displayed traits of paraphilia
Speaker 2: deviant sexual behavior, including phantasies involving humiliation and force. This time,
Speaker 2: the jury deliberated for longer, but in the end they
Speaker 2: determined that Rodriguez deserve the ultimate punishment. He was sentenced
Speaker 2: to death for the abduction and murder of dru Shaedeen.
Speaker 2: It's out of court. Drew's mother, Linda said, Drew's voice
Speaker 2: was heard today and hopefully we'll be sounded around the
Speaker 2: world because we don't tolerate any longer the violence against women,
Speaker 2: much less our children. Her father, Allen, who had been
Speaker 2: present for every moment of the trial, added, it's been
Speaker 2: almost a thousand days since Drew's disappearance and death. It's
Speaker 2: her strength that has driven us, her compassion, her serious
Speaker 2: love for everyone, that give us the qualities to continue
Speaker 2: this battle. He said. The family would have been equally
Speaker 2: satisfied with life in prison without parole, a punishment that,
Speaker 2: unbeknownst to him at the time, would eventually replace the
Speaker 2: death penalty. In October two thousand and eleven, rodriguez defense
Speaker 2: team filed the Habeas corpus motion, arguing that he was
Speaker 2: mentally disabled. Habeas corpus petitions allowed prisoners to challenge their
Speaker 2: imprisonment or sentence, often by raising claims that their constitutional
Speaker 2: rights were violated. Years later, In two thousand and twenty one,
Speaker 2: the same judge who had once sentenced him to death,
Speaker 2: Ralph R. Ericsson, who was now serving on the Escort
Speaker 2: of Appeals, overturned the death sentence. He ruled that the
Speaker 2: testimony of doctor Michael mc gee, the medical examiner, had
Speaker 2: been unreliable, misleading, and inaccurate. Erickson also found that Rodriguez's
Speaker 2: lawyers had failed him by limiting his mental health evaluation,
Speaker 2: which could have allowed for an insanity defense. On the
Speaker 2: fourteenth of March two thousand and twenty three, prosecutors formally
Speaker 2: announced that they were no longer seeking the death penalty.
Speaker 2: Two months later, on the eighteenth of May, Rodriguez was
Speaker 2: re sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Speaker 2: For Drew's family, it was the final chapter in a
Speaker 2: decades long battle for justice. While the punishment had shifted
Speaker 2: from death to life, their daughter's voice had still been
Speaker 2: heard in the courtroom, just as Linda had said all
Speaker 2: those years earlier. Rodriguez would spend the rest of his
Speaker 2: life behind bars, but Drew's legacy lives on outside the
Speaker 2: prison walls, in the memories of her loved ones and
Speaker 2: Drew's law that is it for this episode of Morbidology.
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