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15 Yrs. Later, Cops Still Search For Missing Woman
(AP) Wabasha, Minn. It's been 15 years since Donna Lee Ingersoll walked out of a Wabasha, Minn. house and was never heard from again.
She was 25 years old and had been in an argument with her boyfriend, Gary Murphy, of Plainview, Minn. Ingersoll didn't have any money or a coat when she was reported missing the night of Dec. 16, 1990. Murphy was probably the last to see her.
Police and Ingersoll's family and friends say they're still looking for answers in her disappearance.
"I think about her every day; it bothers me," Wabasha Police Chief Dave Kruger said. "It bothers me for the family that we can't give them some kind of closure."
Kruger pages through the case file about once a month, wondering if authorities could have done something differently.
Ingersoll's mother, Phyllis Ingersoll, fears her daughter is dead. "I would have to think there is foul play because she would have called, I'm sure of that, if she could," she said.
Kruger also guesses there was foul play, but there's no proof and he doesn't know who would have done it.
"It's one of those 'bang your head against the wall' kind of things," he said.
Few answers were found at the time in the search for Ingersoll. The case got more complicated when Murphy committed suicide the next summer.
One of Ingersoll's close friends, Mary Klein, said she doesn't think Murphy would have hurt Ingersoll.
"I know he made her happy," she said, adding that the couple had been writing a children's book together. "She would always talk about him. I think she loved him and he really loved her."
Klein said her friend had struggled with alcohol, but she remembers Ingersoll as a good person who loved children.
"I think it's such a waste that she's gone because she could have gone a long ways," Klein said.
On the anniversary of Ingersoll's disappearance, Kruger said he hopes people might come forward with information. He said police have tried every lead, but there's more work ahead.
"It bothers me we have not been able to close the case," he said. "We're not done."
15 Yrs. Later, Cops Still Search For Missing Woman
(AP) Wabasha, Minn. It's been 15 years since Donna Lee Ingersoll walked out of a Wabasha, Minn. house and was never heard from again.
She was 25 years old and had been in an argument with her boyfriend, Gary Murphy, of Plainview, Minn. Ingersoll didn't have any money or a coat when she was reported missing the night of Dec. 16, 1990. Murphy was probably the last to see her.
Police and Ingersoll's family and friends say they're still looking for answers in her disappearance.
"I think about her every day; it bothers me," Wabasha Police Chief Dave Kruger said. "It bothers me for the family that we can't give them some kind of closure."
Kruger pages through the case file about once a month, wondering if authorities could have done something differently.
Ingersoll's mother, Phyllis Ingersoll, fears her daughter is dead. "I would have to think there is foul play because she would have called, I'm sure of that, if she could," she said.
Kruger also guesses there was foul play, but there's no proof and he doesn't know who would have done it.
"It's one of those 'bang your head against the wall' kind of things," he said.
Few answers were found at the time in the search for Ingersoll. The case got more complicated when Murphy committed suicide the next summer.
One of Ingersoll's close friends, Mary Klein, said she doesn't think Murphy would have hurt Ingersoll.
"I know he made her happy," she said, adding that the couple had been writing a children's book together. "She would always talk about him. I think she loved him and he really loved her."
Klein said her friend had struggled with alcohol, but she remembers Ingersoll as a good person who loved children.
"I think it's such a waste that she's gone because she could have gone a long ways," Klein said.
On the anniversary of Ingersoll's disappearance, Kruger said he hopes people might come forward with information. He said police have tried every lead, but there's more work ahead.
"It bothers me we have not been able to close the case," he said. "We're not done."