Two young women. Two Minnesota roads. Two cold cases still waiting for answers.
In part one, we look at the unsolved homicide of Juanita “Wendy” Wear, a seventeen year old who was last seen at a party in Farmington in December 1976. She was reported missing on December 25, and nearly two months later, her body was found by juveniles in a construction area in Apple Valley. The public record is painfully thin, but the silence around Wendy’s case is part of the story.
In part two, we turn to JoAnn Bontjes, a twenty one year old beauty salon operator from Sherburn who disappeared after spending an evening with friends in Trimont in October 1975. Her car was found abandoned along Highway 4. The next day, her body was found in a rural ditch. Nearly fifty years later, new DNA testing has brought renewed attention to her case.
These cases are not known to be connected. But together, they ask us to sit with what remains after a young woman disappears: the roads, the rumors, the evidence, the unanswered questions, and the people still waiting for the truth.