WALKER, Minn. - A Cass County judge has ruled that investigators improperly questioned the man accused of kidnapping and killing a 5-year-old Watkins girl in August, deciding his first statement to ...

A friend of the suspect in the kidnapping and murder of 5-year-old Alayna Ertl shed light Monday onto the relationship between the jailed man and the victim's family, and the reason the suspect was ...

The man suspected of kidnapping and killing his co-worker’s 5-year-old daughter over the weekend was charged Tuesday with murder. Twenty-five-year-old Zachary Anderson, of Coon Rapids, faces ...

BRAINERD - A Saturday Amber Alert for a missing five-year-old Watkins girl turned into a homicide investigation within hours, after tips led investigators to her body in rural Cass County. The 25-year ...

Kayla Ertl put her daughter Alayna to bed in their Watkins home Saturday and when she checked on her little girl six hours later, she was gone. A Minnesota man was arrested after police say he ...