Richard “Dick” Poissant, 89 year old resident of St. Cloud, MN, formerly of Little Falls, MN passed away Sunday, April 14, 2024 at the St. Cloud Hospital in St. Cloud, MN. A Mass of Christian Burial will take place at 11:00 A.M. on Monday, April 22, 2024 at Holy Family Catholic Church in Belle Prairie, MN with Father David Maciej officiating. Burial will take place in the Holy Family Parish Cemetery in Belle Prairie. A visitation will be held from 3-6 P.M. on Sunday, April 21, 2024 at the Shelley Funeral Chapel in Little Falls, MN and from 10-11 A.M. on Monday at Holy Family Catholic Church. Caring for Dick and his family is the Shelley Funeral Chapel in Little Falls, MN. shelleyfuneralchapels.com / 320-632-5242
The unsolved case leaves open the questions of who killed the husband and father of four and why they pulled the trigger. It was the first homicide under Morrison County Sheriff Shawn Larsen’s leadership and the only unsolved murder under active investigation in the county. The lack of eyewitnesses is the biggest hurdle in the investigation, Larsen said, which has thus far resulted in circumstantial evidence and a list of possible suspects, some of whom have no clear alibi.
When the hunter became the hunted: Behind the 2016 unsolved murder of a Minnesota man
The unsolved case leaves open the questions of who killed the husband and father of four and why they pulled the trigger. It was the first homicide under Morrison County Sheriff Shawn Larsen’s leadership and the only unsolved murder under active investigation in the county. The lack of eyewitnesses is the biggest hurdle in the investigation, Larsen said, which has thus far resulted in circumstantial evidence and a list of possible suspects, some of whom have no clear alibi. 10:03 am, May 11, 2021 ×
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