"I do not believe the cases are linked, but that's just my personal opinion, based on partial information. What is virtually beyond dispute is that Mary was acquainted with her killer. The key to solving the Reker double murder is to examine every person with a prior or subsequent record of sexual offending whom Mary and Susanne may have encountered the day they died. Here are the known possibilities in the public record: (1) A worker in the Zayre grocery section, who was convicted two years later for stabbing a St. Cloud girl. (2) Another grocery worker, who was a friend of a boy Mary had dated. (3) A man living six blocks from the Rekers, who was sentenced to life in prison in 1979 for the stabbing death of an 8-year-old Colorado girl. (4) A ''nervous-looking large man waiting outside the store about the time the girls left.'' (5) Two men at a tavern across town in the company of several teenagers. [http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/2823149.html] ... (6) A priest who fondled an acquaintance of the Reker girls in a lakeside cabin (where Mary and Susanne had also been), who is alleged to have held a knife to the girl's throat while molesting her and allegedly telling her she would die if she ever talked about what he was doing to her. [http://www.startribune.com/stories/1697/2823237-2.html] ... For those who missed it, here are the links to the two-part KARE 11 News Extra, including video clips and PDF files of St. Cloud Times and Star Tribune reports on the botched investigation: ... http://www.kare11.com/extras/extras_article.aspx?storyid=97631 ... ... http://www.kare11.com/extras/extras_article.aspx?storyid=97719 ... I am unable to establish a direct link between any of these individuals and the cases of Jared, Jacob, and Josh -- either circumstantially or on the basis of criminal investigative analysis (victimology, profiling, etc.). ... "
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