Case Closed

They found Dru Sjodin on Saturday.

Now, I'm perfectly happy, on conservative grounds, that neither Minnesota nor my homestate (and site of the primary crime scene), North Dakota, have the death penalty.

However, since this is a federal case (the killer crossed state lines - the secondary crime scene is in Minnesota), I'm not especially broken up that Alfonso Rodriguez, primary suspect, faces a death rap.

I think there are a million potential executioners in northern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota.

We don't know, yet, what happened at the kidnap scene, at the Columbia Mall parking lot in Grand Forks. All I know is that my long-time lesson to my kids - always fight back, never get in a car, even if they point a gun at you - you're more likely to survive a gunshot than a trip in someone's car - just stay out of the car, run and make all the noise you can - just got underscored.