Wisconsin 2003 cold case solved — arrest shocks community

Wisconsin 2003 cold case solved — arrest shocks community

Melissa Harlow’s cocoa mug was still warm on the kitchen counter when she vanished from the town of Baraboo, Wisconsin, population 21,089. A February night had dumped nearly 10 inches of snow, blanketing the pine forests and the narrow roads that wound through the wooded neighborhood. At 8:12 p.m., her neighbor, Nora Lindgren, waved from her kitchen window as Melissa—a 32-year-old local elementary school employee—carried a small paper bag across the narrow path that separated their two modest wooden homes.

Inside the bag was a box of sugar Melissa had bought to replace what she’d borrowed earlier that evening, the same fine granulated sugar Nora had used for baking for the past 25 years. The older woman watched Melissa’s figure gradually dissolve into the swirling, snow-laden wind, her pale blue coat the last splash of color in the white void between the dark pine trunks. What happened in the minutes that followed would haunt Baraboo for nearly two decades.

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