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Method & Madness, a true-crime podcast that focuses on victim advocacy, in partnership with Cold Case Advocacy, is releasing a four-part series on the unsolved

The family of a 20-year-old Minnesota woman killed in 1985 during a trip to upstate New York is begging law enforcement to reopen the 37-year-old cold case.

Updated: 7:54 PM CDT July 6, 2021 BURNSVILLE, Minn. — 36 years have gone by, but Phyllis OConnell cant shake the apprehension she heard in her daughters voice during their last conversation. "She said, Im going to be coming home, and I said why? is something not right or what? and she said, well, its alright mom, dont worry," OConnell said.  OConnells daughter, Kristin, was calling from the Finger Lakes Region in New York. "She had met a boy on spring break, who just - oh! ju...