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A town in shock. 'I cannot imagine killing your own child.'

DNA testing linked tissue from the 1981 scene to Nancy Jean Trottier and her husband, leading prosecutors to file a murder charge.

Summary by Inforum
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. — As a mother and grandmother, Deborah Thorstad sat down heavily in her recliner when she first heard the news that her former neighbor had become the primary suspect in a 45-year-old cold case. Her oxygen machine hummed nearby as she collected her thoughts. “Makes me want to throw up. Forty-five years ago I had my first child, and I was a single mom,” said Thorstad, a three-year-long resident of the area along Village Avenue. …

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Inforum broke the news in Fargo, United States on Friday, April 17, 2026.
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