Missing Person Donna Ingersoll of Wabasha, MN Missing 25 Years

It’s been 25 years since Donna Ingersoll disappeared into thin air, yet the town of Wabasha is still reeling. Now, law enforcement believes it is the closest it will ever be to cracking the case, with a national search team joining them in the mission to find her body.

This weekend, the Wabasha Police Department will be joined by a search team out of North Carolina with 40 cadaver dog teams with the hopes of putting to rest nearly a quarter century of rumors and uncertainty. The group is also armed with something else: several new leads.

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“We’re basically talking about a person here that just vanished into thin air,” said Wabasha Police Chief Jim Warren. “This ain’t to bring up any bad memories for any family or nothing like that but, this solely is about Donna Ingersoll and her family.”

Warren has put two years into trying to solve the unfinished puzzle of the disappearance of 25-year-old Donna Ingersoll, along with a cold case board unit within the department.

“That’s kind of where we’re at in a nutshell, and that’s why this book is so thick,” he said as he thumbed through the original files of Ingersoll’s  case.

For 25 years, the city has grappled with what could have happened to the young woman, who disappeared after an argument with her boyfriend at her home on the night of December 16, 1990. With no memorial to remember her by, a community is left with just questions.

“You know there’s a lot of rumors out there of people that were involved and that’s what they are–rumors,” Warren said. “If I can say ‘hey, family, this portion is/was rumor and this portion had nothing to do with you,’ then I think they would welcome that.”

Now, Warren believes he has a chance, although small.

“Less than 1 percent chance of finding anything, but on the same token we’ve been there before,” he said, pointing to another cold case solved in recent history. He believes in a sliver of faith in finding the missing piece to this missing person puzzle.

This weekend, Warren will be armed with a crew of 80 people and 40 cadaver dogs to scour miles of land for any clues that point to Donna. He also has several new leads including a report of human remains found in the mid-90s on a road where another lead also alleges suspicious activity connected to Donna’s then boyfriend.

“After this portion if we don’t get so far, I’m sure we’ll invite that team back and finish,” he said.

Working with evidence that is anything but clear, Warren still has hope of cracking this case.

“I didn’t know how big of an undertaking was going to be at first and people tried to warn me,” Warren said. “People on the board, they said, ‘this is a lot to do but I’m up for the challenge.”

Authorities considered the boyfriend a prime suspect, but he committed suicide a year after Donna went missing.

The teams plan on going through five search sites this Saturday and Sunday. Look for more on the NewsCenter this weekend.

Image of Donna Ingersoll before her disappearance

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