He was released as a Minnesota Level 3 sex offender which meant he was highly likely to reoffend.
He had a long criminal record that included repeated sexual assaults against women. Rodriguez had also previously pleaded guilty to rape and was convicted multiple times for rape. Rodriguez had been released from prison May 1, 2003, after serving a 23-year prison term for rape, aggravated assault and kidnapping a woman. He admitted to using many drugs during his youth and committed his first sexual assault with a knife when he was 21 by attempting to rape a woman he asked to give him a ride home. was the son of migrant farm workers Dolores and Alfonso Rodriguez Sr., who traveled between Crystal City, Texas, and Minnesota and then decided to settle in 1963 in Crookston, Minnesota. Perpetrator įirst degree murder in the death of Dru Sjodinĭeath (overturned pending new sentencing trial)Īlfonso Rodriguez Jr. (born February 18, 1953), was arrested in connection with Sjodin's disappearance. Ī week later, on December 1, a suspect, 50-year-old registered level-3 sex offender Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. With this second call and Sjodin not showing up at her other job at the El Roco nightclub, there was concern for her whereabouts. It was reported by authorities this second phone call originated somewhere near Fisher, Minnesota, but that has remained unsubstantiated. About three hours later, Lang received another call from her cell phone, but heard only static and the sound of buttons being pressed. Lang suspected that the call was just simply dropped and because Sjodin didn't give any sense of urgency, Lang thought nothing of it. Four minutes into their conversation, Lang reports Sjodin was saying "Okay, okay," before the call abruptly ended. During this time, Sjodin was speaking with her boyfriend, Chris Lang, on her cell phone. After shopping for and purchasing a new purse from Marshall Field's, Sjodin left the mall and began walking to her 1994 Oldsmobile Cutlass. on Saturday, November 22, 2003, Sjodin, a 22-year-old college student at the University of North Dakota and Gamma Phi Beta sorority member, finished her shift at the Victoria's Secret store located in the Columbia Mall in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
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