ACTIVE SEARCH MN - Becky Jo Look, 41, Kittson County, 1 Oct 1995

[cybervampira]

Kittson County gathering new info on woman missing since 199...

Kittson County investigators are taking another look at a missing person case that is two decades old.

The Kittson County Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday it had new information regarding Becky Jo Look, who has been missing since 1995.

Look moved from Albuquerque, N.M., to Halma, Minn., but the then-41-year-old went missing in the first week of October 1995, Vig said in the video. She wasn't reported missing until February 1996.

Becky Jo Look – The Charley Project

3153DFMN - Becky Jo Look

Sheriff Steve Porter and Chief Deputy Matt Vig are asking the public for information on a cold case. Becky Jo Look went missing from Halma MN in 1995.

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[doodles1211]

Lived in MN all my life and never heard of Halma, MN. Must be a super small town.

 

[MagnoliaMountain]

From her Charley Project profile:

Look had moved to Minnesota from New Mexico with her boyfriend earlier that year. She and her boyfriend had a history of partying and drinking alcohol to excess, and there may have been domestic violence in the relationship.[...]

There was a rumor that she got on a bus and went to New Mexico, but police could find no evidence to support this, and her local friends were surprised that she didn't say goodbye to them. She didn't own a vehicle and it would be uncharacteristic of her to hitchhike.

Makes me think that the boyfriend may have had something to do with her disappearance...

 

[folieadeuxnola]

Cold case heats up in Kittson County

A cold case heats up in Kittson County -- as authorities search for clues decades later.

41-year-old Becky Jo Look has been missing since October 1995.

On Wednesday, more than 20 years later police are hoping to figure out what happened.

Since they posted a video on Facebook on Tuesday morning, the Kittson County Sheriff tells me they've been busy all day today working on this case.

 

[doodles1211]

Backhoe and dogs being used in cold case search of woman missing 23 years

They are starting the search, but not saying exactly where they are searching.

 

[cybervampira]

Police dig up farm looking for clues in 1995 cold case.

A farm in northwestern Minnesota has been a hive of activity this week as investigators search for clues in a cold case more than 20 years old.

Police said there are no suspects of persons of interests at this time, but they reopened the case after interviewing one of her friends, who said it was strange that Look would have left without saying goodbye.

 

[cybervampira]

A 23-year old missing persons case in Kittson County has new details, reopening the 'cold' case

Sheriff Porter says the former sheriff believed she got on a bus and went back home to New Mexico, but he disagrees.

Porter believes Becky never left the area.

"We were contacted by an elderly woman who told us that back in the day her son, who has since passed away, came home one night drunk and exclaimed, told her that he had helped hide a woman's body. She thought it was drunk talk," says Sheriff Porter.

Then the Sheriff got another tip.
This time he was suggested to search rock piles in both Marshall and Kittson County.

The tipster told him that's where the body of Becky Look was buried.
So they did.

This is just one place the Kittson County Sheriff's Department dug, looking for evidence on this case.

"We have not found her body at this time, but there's more leads and more work to do," says Sheriff Porter.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Missing woman's daughters plead for clues to disappearance

Look disappeared from Halma, Minn., in 1995. She supposedly left to be closer to family in Albuquerque, N.M., but never showed up. She was reported missing four months later.

Her family said they never knew she was moving and friends told Porter they were confused Look didn't say goodbye.

She was living with her former boyfriend, Todd Spilde, before she disappeared.

more...

 

[iulia]

Compelling evidence leads to search for missing woman’s body

The Kittson County Sheriff’s Department is diligently working credible leads regarding the Becky Jo Look case.
Sheriff Steve Porter reported to the Kittson County Board of Commissioners on Sept. 4 that they received a tip in August about a possible location of Look’s body.

 

[iulia]

New information leads to second search for remains of woman believed to have been murdered 23-years ago

HALLOCK, MINNESOTA (KFGO) - New information on the case a woman missing and believed to have been murdered in northwestern Minnesota more than 20 years ago.

Kittson County Sheriff Steve Porter recently re-opened the cold case file of Becky Jo Look of Halma, last seen in October of 1995. Based on information from the public, the sheriff's department searched a pasture just inside the county line of neighboring Marshall County in August.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Deputies in Kittson County spent the week digging animal bones out of rock piles at a rural Minnesota farm in hopes of uncovering human remains.

But after 23 years, they still haven't found Becky Jo Look's body.

Sheriff Steve Porter said the search is far from over. After reopening the cold case this summer, he said deputies have interviewed nearly 60 people about the missing woman.

New details in 23-year-old missing woman investigation in Kittson...

 

[JerseyGirl]

The name of the man who police say helped bury Becky Jo Look in a rock-pile is Christopher Nelson.

Nelson had a step-father, and said it's possible the burial could have been on the step father's farm in Mashall County.

The Sheriff got a tip that someone was driving in a remote area around the same time Becky went missing.

Witnesses say they saw headlights on a vehicle that belonged to Nelson's step-dad. When the vehicle was spotted, the vehicles lights shut off.

Police will continue to search rock piles on Nelson's step-dads property, in hopes of finding Becky Jo Look's body.

New information on missing woman that's believed to be murdered in Kittson County

 

[cybervampira]

Video at link.

Kittson County Sheriff's Department continues to look for 23-year-old missing woman's body

The Kittson County Sheriff's Department says they aren't giving up looking for the body of Becky Jo Look.

They've been getting good information from the public, and with the use of cadaver dogs they got another hit on a property Becky used to live on.

It all started with two cadaver dogs stopping at the same corner of this shed.

"It hit on the corner of the building, well that was interesting. It was a positive confirmation that this dog says there's something buried here and it's human," says Steve Porter, Sheriff of Kittson County.

 

[JerseyGirl]

The Kittson County Sheriff's Department had new eyes searching for the body of Becky Jo Look.

Becky's daughters flew in from Oregon to help the sheriff's department search for their mom.

Kittson County investigators continue to ask for any information about the night Becky disappeared.

Daughters of woman missing for over two decades speak out

 

[halmagirl]

Very small,

Lived in MN all my life and never heard of Halma, MN. Must be a super small town.

It’s a very small town, I grew up there. Knew Todd almost all my life, knew Chris a bit as we went to school together. Population has always hovered around 60. Everyone knew everyone, and pretty much everyone knew your business before you did back in the days I lived there.

 

[Luckyzmom]

Welcome Halmagirl, happy you are joining us. Thanks very much. I stop by to see if anything new is available in Betty Jo's disapearnce. Always grateful for locals willing to share with us !!

 

[halmagirl]

Thank you, been watching this case since it reopened, the first I had heard of it.

Welcome Halmagirl, happy you are joining us. Thanks very much. I stop by to see if anything new is available in Betty Jo's disapearnce. Always grateful for locals willing to share with us !!

 

[halmagirl]

I don’t know if sheriff’s office ever did talk to Todd, if they haven’t, they never will. Whatever he knew went with him to the grave.

 

[halmagirl]

Taken from grand Forks herald, Jan 4,2020

But Kittson County's only cold case remains active, said Kittson County Chief Deputy Sheriff Matt Vig. He keeps in touch with Look's family members and the sheriff's office still fields tips from people who believe they remember something about Look's disappearance. Vig recently met with Bemidji-based Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agents to discuss investigators' next steps in the case.

Still, it remains most likely that the Look case will join the list of cold cases that will go on "probably forever," according to Vig. Kittson County Sheriff Mark Wilwant said that without any new leads in more than 10 months, he considers the case cold once again.

"It takes somebody to come forward and tell you exactly what happened or tell you where the body is," Wilwant said. "And when they're that old, the odds of somebody coming forward are pretty slim."

 

[John/Jane Doe]

3153DFMN - Becky Jo Look