Nearly 25 years after her disappearance, Katie Poirier's killer has died in prison. This small win comes at a terrible cost. Less than 10 miles from my childhood home in northern Minnesota, Katie was kidnapped from a gas station to never be seen again. Let me take you back to that fateful night in 1999 to explore what happened to Katie and unearth the secrets her killer was hiding.

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