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Welk has served with the Cass County Sheriff’s Office for 24 years, starting as a dispatcher. In 2004 he became a deputy and was later promoted to sergeant. In 2019 he was promoted to lieutenant and since November of 2021 has served as chief deputy, the sheriff’s office second in command.
Investigators believe the person who killed Rachel Anthony in 2001 was buying Mickey's Malt Liquor and Kool cigarettes the night she disappeared.
Those involved with the case have long suspected the person who prompted Anthony, an employee of the liquor store, to ring up the items is likely the same person responsible for her death.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and Cass County Sheriff’s Office said the cigarettes and malt liquor made up the last transaction of the night on Feb. 27, 2001, at Ultimate Liquors on Barclay Avenue in Pine River.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the Cass County Sheriff's Office have released new details as part of an ongoing 21-year murder investigation.