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    MN MN - Susan Swedell, 19, Lake Elmo, 19 Jan 1988

    Thanks for posting this, @mlhenn. I didn't know about that site. It looks like Susan Swedell's sister has teamed up with one of the PIs at SolveTheCase and created a new page about the case. There's a discussion started there by said PI. And Susan's sister has posted about it on her Swedell...
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    MN MN - Susan Swedell, 19, Lake Elmo, 19 Jan 1988

    Glad I could help. Thanks for asking and keeping this thread alive!
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    MN MN - Susan Swedell, 19, Lake Elmo, 19 Jan 1988

    Hi Sweetluv. There are truly many odd pieces to this story. One theory I think early investigators considered was that she was planning to meet somebody, but her sister has posted about this in social media and commented in the Still Missing Podcast. She says that Sue had a habit of changing...
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    MN MN - Susan Swedell, 19, Lake Elmo, 19 Jan 1988

    This recent segment on Minnesota NBC affiliate KARE-11 is a much better production than the WCCO segment above: It's always interesting to me that everytime investigators or family members speak about this, either new details come out or the story shifts ever so slightly. In this latest...
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    MN MN - Susan Swedell, 19, Lake Elmo, 19 Jan 1988

    Minnesota CBS affiliate WCCO broadcast a segment about this on Jan 21, 2025, here on YouTube:
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    MN MN - Susan Swedell, 19, Lake Elmo, 19 Jan 1988

    Thanks for posting the KARE-11 article. I just searched Google News and yeah, it looks like this one got some press the last few days after all. I thought it was going to go missed this anniversary. Here's some more recent press on this story...
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    MN MN - Susan Swedell, 19, Lake Elmo, 19 Jan 1988

    I've talked to a few mechanics and auto buffs about this question. I've done some supporting research too. Universally these sources agree that atmospheric temperature wouldn't help to cool the engine. The way an engine cooling system works is the fluid moves heat away from the engine to the...
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    MN MN - Susan Swedell, 19, Lake Elmo, 19 Jan 1988

    Light a candle at 9:00PM Central Time tonight 37 years ago today Susan Swedell was last seen getting into a car with a young male driver at a rural crossroads gas station in Lake Elmo, Minnesota about 1.3 miles from her home. She had reported car trouble to the gas station clerk and asked to...
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    IL IL- Sarah ‘Kathy’ Ferree, 23, left Aldee’s Disco club, 1/2hr. later, her car found @ side of highway, body found miles away, Calumet City, 4 Jan. 1980

    Could it be that she was abducted by somebody who followed her from Aldee's Disco in Calumet City? I still wonder if there was anything found to be wrong with her car. None of the news reports say anything about it, but automotive sabotage isn't exactly an original MO for abductors. It...
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    MN MN - Susan Swedell, 19, Lake Elmo, 19 Jan 1988

    In 1975 a woman in Miami, Florida reported that she was assaulted by a man who had apparently drained her car's radiator in a shopping mall parking lot while she shopped. Her car overheated and broke down about 2 miles away from the shopping mall. A van immediately pulled up behind her. A guy in...
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    MN MN - Susan Swedell, 19, Lake Elmo, 19 Jan 1988

    I've wondered about these things too, but the thing is that there were other gas stations along the way home. There was one just down the hill from Kmart on the frontage road. I think it was a SuperAmerica station. And there was another one that was only about a couple blocks or so from her...
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    MN MN - Susan Swedell, 19, Lake Elmo, 19 Jan 1988

    Hi BethAnn777. I've had the same question about the gas pumping part. Usually I think the same way you do about it. It could have just been his way of looking natural. It also would have bought him some time. It's crazy though, because it also enhances his visibility. So if he's Sue's abductor...
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    MN MN - Susan Swedell, 19, Lake Elmo, 19 Jan 1988

    (Oops. This post was made in error while editting my last post. Sorry. Please delete.)
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    MN MN - Susan Swedell, 19, Lake Elmo, 19 Jan 1988

    We're about 1 month away from the 37th anniversary of Sue's disappearance. There's a recurring theme in this case. I'll call it "things not where they should be." It goes a little bit like this: 1. Sue isn't home on Tuesday, Jan 19, 1988 about 930PM as expected 2. A little later that night...
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    MN MN - Susan Swedell, 19, Lake Elmo, 19 Jan 1988

    One more... 1979 Mercury Cougar XR7:
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    MN MN - Susan Swedell, 19, Lake Elmo, 19 Jan 1988

    A few more Ford and Mercury models from 1977-79 which are all pretty close in appearance to the casual observer. It couldn't have been easy for the gas station clerk to be sure of what she saw, but I think all the images posted so far are in the ballpark. The description of the car was...
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    MN MN - Susan Swedell, 19, Lake Elmo, 19 Jan 1988

    Here's the pic of a 1975 Cutlass you referenced from Richard's post above: Here's the actual car that Sue was driving that night with Sue and her sister posing: And here's a photo of the gas station taken about 1999 by Sue's sister. By the time this photo was taken the gas station had...
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    MN MN - Susan Swedell, 19, Lake Elmo, 19 Jan 1988

    Oh! Sorry, I left out the approximate date on the car description. The clerk described cars that were either late 1970s or possibly early 1980s. Susan's sister has talked about a guy Sue met a couple weeks before her disappearance at a teen dance club. She says this guy drove a car that at...
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    MN MN - Susan Swedell, 19, Lake Elmo, 19 Jan 1988

    :) I reallly like your username. Neither am I :) In 1988 the clerk, who was in her mid 20s, described the car as a light colored Ford LTD or perhaps Thunderbird style body with sports wheels. It was described as in good shape but dirty which would be normal during the snowy season. It would...
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    MN MN - Susan Swedell, 19, Lake Elmo, 19 Jan 1988

    Authorities at Washington County have used the phrase "muscular build," rather than just "muscular" or "man with muscles" as Trisha Taurinskas does in this latest article. This might help clarify what the gas station clerk actually saw. He is also sometimes described as "well built" and that...

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