Overview
- Minneapolis police identified the woman found near East River Flats Park as 56-year-old Karen Sognesand, whose death occurred Saturday and whose case is being treated as a death investigation.
- A heavily decomposed body was recovered along the east shore of Bde Maka Ska on Sunday and is being investigated by the Hennepin County sheriff’s office and park police with forensic work pending.
- University of Minnesota police located a third body near the Stone Arch Bridge on Monday and are conducting an independent probe into that discovery.
- Separately, Dakota County investigators are probing the death of 40-year-old Timothy Standish Jr., whose body was found in the Mississippi River near Inver Grove Heights last week and for which authorities have asked the public for information.
- Multiple agencies including Minneapolis Police, park police, university police and the Hennepin County Medical Examiner emphasize there is no confirmed connection between the recoveries and say final causes of death will await forensic and medical-examiner determinations, complicating coordination and public updates.