This Case Snapshot examines the 1990 murder of Robin Enockson in rural North Dakota. Beginning with an escape from a state hospital a decade earlier, the episode lays out the crime, the investigation, and how the case was ultimately resolved years later after a confession.

Archival news audio courtesy of the State Historical Society of North Dakota.

Produced by James Wolner. Research assistance by Mari Zoerb Hansen.

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