Carin Streufert - 1991 Home Town Teen Murdered
Carin Streufert grew up in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, surrounded by a large family and many friends. She graduated from GRHS in 1990, and besides being a good student, she also played the saxophone in a band and was a swim team captain. She spent her college freshman year at the U of M in Minneapolis. She was beginning to think about a career in early childhood development. However, that changed forever on June 15, 1991, just two weeks before her 19th birthday. In the early morning hours of June 15th, Carin Streufert, a popular 18 year old girl, was kidnapped. She was last seen alive by her friends at approximately 2:25 am in the morning when she had left the Grand Rapids Perkins to walk home, but she never made it. Her disappearance was unexplained for several days, with the town in shock at the missing teen. Until Guy Alan Sullivan walked into the Itasca County Sheriff's office at 3:00 am on June 19th. He told police that his friend Swanson committed the murder and over the...