Opinion ID: 2132528
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Missing Persons Report

Text: On Saturday, April 24, 1999, Janet Hennes called the Isanti County sheriff's office to report that her sister, Nancy Licari, was missing. Deputy Sheriff Jim Johnson responded to Hennes's call and also talked to Nancy's mother, Kathleen Smith. Smith told Johnson that Nancy had not returned from a dinner meeting with appellant; her estranged husband, the previous evening; that Nancy had driven Smith's Ford Tempo to the meeting; and that Smith had expected Nancy to return in just a few hours. The next day, Nancy's family reported that they had found a letter written by appellant that hinted strongly that he was suicidal. Isanti County Investigator Kory Erickson, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) Special Agent Jon Hermann and other officers swept the vicinity of the cafe at which appellant and Nancy reportedly had met on April 23, but they did not find appellant, Nancy or their automobiles. On Monday, April 26, Erickson and Hermann obtained information about Nancy's credit cards, which they used to try to locate her. Erickson then put out a Minnesota Crime Alert notification to local bars, restaurants and motels, requesting that anyone who had seen the missing persons or their cars call 911. Nancy's relatives and appellant's sister also told Investigator Erickson that appellant and Nancy were renting a storage unit at Big Closet Mini Storage (Big Closet), south of Isanti. Nancy's family told Erickson that Nancy made the payments on the unit, kept personal belongings in the unit, and usually held the key to the unit. The family did not have the key to the unit at that time; they told Erickson that Nancy had recently given the key to appellant. Erickson enlisted Isanti County Investigator Michael Ammend to check out the storage unit, telling him that the family had given Erickson permission to look inside the storage unit.