"… we may have a repeat offender on our hands." Well yes, DoubleDash. The apparent lack of any physical evidence in Josh's disappearance suggests an experienced offender. Here are just four cases for a linkage analysis. Kevin Jay Ayotte, missing from the Cass Lake area in Beltrami County since September 30, 1982; Jacob Wetterling, abducted in St. Joseph on October 22, 1989; Christopher Matthew Kerze, missing from Eagan in Dakota County since April 20, 1990; and Joshua Guimond, missing from Collegeville since November 10, 2002. Six months after Jacob's abduction, on April 20, 1990, 17-year-old Christopher Kerze disappeared while home sick from school. His family's van was found abandoned two days later near Grand Rapids, MN – about 50 miles east of where the Ayotte boy had disappeared several years earlier. The Wetterling and Guimond investigations in Stearns County appear to be active, but few remember the Ayotte and Kerze boys. Investigators in Beltrami and Dakota Counties need to dust off their cold case files and check whether an unidentified subject matching this description ever came up in their investigation: Caucasian, medium to large build, slightly above average in height, receding gray hair, and resembling this sketch made nearly 16 years ago, when he was about 50 (see http://myexperiments.homestead.com/files/videostill.jpg). Investigators in all three counties – Stearns, Beltrami, and Dakota – need to look carefully at possible suspects with concurrent residential, employment, family, and/or recreational connections to these three counties.
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