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5 years after filing the missing persons report, his parents learned he was the 'Mall of America Man'
A St. Paul investigator solved a cold case by identifying Sean Rush through DNA after five years; his family was finally notified and learned of his burial location.
- A St. Paul Police Department investigator identified the Mall of America man five years after his discovery on Feb. 18, 2003, naming him as Sean Rush after linking a cold case to a missing persons report.
- The man's body was found near the bottom of a Mall of America parking ramp on Feb. 18, 2003, and remained unidentified for years despite investigators releasing a sketch and submitting fingerprints to national databases.
- Investigator Lisa Kruse discovered a potential match with a missing persons report filed three weeks after the body was found, prompting investigators to contact Rush's family for DNA confirmation through swabs from his parents and siblings.
- Rush's parents learned he was buried in St. Paul's Oakland Cemetery; his mother, Sheila Hellrich, said she was "so sad that he was so lost that he felt there was no place to turn," according to the Duluth News Tribune.
- A large volume of missing persons reports initially caused Rush's case file to slip through investigative cracks, yet persistent case review eventually resolved this five-year cold case and demonstrates how archived investigations can yield answers.
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5 years after filing the missing persons report, his parents learned he was the 'Mall of America Man'
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — For five years, the parents of a missing St. Paul man were unaware of efforts to identify his body, until a missing persons investigator dug into the case. The man’s body was found near the bottom of a Mall of America parking ramp on Feb. 18, 2003. He carried no identification, and medical examiners were unable to determine who he was. Investigators theorized he jumped from the top of a nearby parking ramp. A sketch of the m…
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