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

[mlhenn]

Washington County asks for any leads on birthday of woman missing since 1988

Over 37 years after 19-year-old Susan Swedell disappeared, the Washington County Sheriff's Office says the case is still open and active.

kstp.com

Swedell would be 57 years old on Thursday, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office; instead, she remains the subject of a mystery still unsolved decades after she went missing.

 

[mlhenn]

MISSING - Susan Anne Swedell | Solve the Case

On the evening of 1/19/88, 19-year-old Susan Swedell had left work and stopped at a gas station close to her house during a blizzard. Susan was experiencing car troubles and was allowed to leave her car at the station. She was next seen getting into a car with an unknown subject after they had...

www.solvethecase.org

 

[Sweetluv]

Alot off odd things about this case. If Susan was leaving work and heading home to watch a movie, why change into a skirt..esp during a snowstorm? Getting into this other vehicle, why leave your purse and eyeglasses behind if you intended to leave the vehicle behind?
The Mother thinks Susan returned home days later because dishes were in the sink and it smelled like cigarettes...did LE test for fingerprints?

 

[Reminder]

Hi Sweetluv. There are truly many odd pieces to this story.

Alot off odd things about this case. If Susan was leaving work and heading home to watch a movie, why change into a skirt..esp during a snowstorm?

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 into different outfits sometimes several times a day. Her sister never read much into that information. The skirt and sweater she changed into were seasonally appropriate according to her sister and it was the outfit she had worn earlier in the day to her first job at a boutique called Body & Sole. The clothes she changed out of were a pair of red pants and a red long sleeve button up shirt.

If she was going home to watch a movie with her mom and sister while the snowstorm passed, was she changing into a more comfortable outfit to lounge around in? Why not just wait and do that at home?

Getting into this other vehicle, why leave your purse and eyeglasses behind if you intended to leave the vehicle behind?

I suggested a few posts back that maybe she didn't leave these items in her car, but somebody came back to her car later that night and planted the items. It would be consistent behavior with all the other apparent manipulation. Examples: A. the sabotage of the car's cooling system - somebody had to unscrew that radiator drain plug. B. the sudden appearance of the red pants and shirt under Sue's bed (!) on the same day somebody entered the family's home while they were away. C. That same strange visitor also left the hidden key on the porch in an unusual place, left dishes in the sink that shouldn't have been there, and a burning odor hanging in the air.

The Mother thinks Susan returned home days later because dishes were in the sink and it smelled like cigarettes...did LE test for fingerprints?

Susan's sister has stated on the Swedell Strong Facebook page, "Our house was not dusted for fingerprints."

 

[Sweetluv]

@Reminder ..thanks for answering my questions!

 

[Reminder]

@Reminder ..thanks for answering my questions!

Glad I could help. Thanks for asking and keeping this thread alive!

 

[Reminder]

MISSING - Susan Anne Swedell | Solve the Case

On the evening of 1/19/88, 19-year-old Susan Swedell had left work and stopped at a gas station close to her house during a blizzard. Susan was experiencing car troubles and was allowed to leave her car at the station. She was next seen getting into a car with an unknown subject after they had...

www.solvethecase.org

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 Strong Facebook page.

 

[Richard]

Susan has been missing for over 37 years.