Jun 27, 2006 1:49 pm US/Central
Slain Woman's Family Searches For Answers
by Esme Murphy
Minneapolis (WCCO) ―
Someone murdered Laura DeMeules late last year.
Eight months later, her family is waiting for answers and appealing to witnesses to come forward. Her smile still haunts her family. It has been seven months since they have seen it, seven months since her body was dumped near a dead end in Northfield.
"I mean at least one person out there knows something," said her sister Lisa.
It is a sisters' crusade. Lisa, Sherry and Sheilah are now joined by their mother Marlene to try to find the killer.
"I don't want to see this happen to anybody else", said Marlene.
Laura's life was not easy as a teen she turned to drugs and prostitution. But for the past three years she was trying to stay clean.
"She overcame many many obstacles," said Lisa. "She was saveable. She really really did try."
Laura DeMeules was last seen alive leaving a home at the intersection of 21st and East Lake Street on November 6 around 3 a.m. An hour later in rural Northfield a neighbor heard and saw a strange car turning around, close to the spot were Laura's body was later found.
The sisters helped organize a march through the tough streets were Laura was last seen, have passed out hundreds of flyers and even put up a billboard on Lake Street. They say she was a good mom to her three kids and she should be remembered not for how she lived or died, but the promise of what might have been.
There is a $10,000 reward being offered for anyone offering solid information in this case. If you know anything about this crime: Please give the Rice County hotline a call. The number is (866) 968-8477.
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