North Dakota college student’s killer arrested On this day, Dec. 1, in 2003, North Dakota police arrested convicted rapist Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., in the disappearance of college student Dru Sjodin. Her case prompted the creation of the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Registry.
Rodriguez, 50, had been recently released after spending 23 years in prison for stabbing and trying to kidnap a woman.
Rodriguez had also previously pleaded guilty to raping another woman.
He claimed he was at a movie at the time Sjodin, 22, vanished, but the film he claimed to have watched wasn’t playing where he said he saw it.
The following spring, after the snow thawed, Sjodin’s body was found facedown in a ravine, tied up and partially nude.
Rodriguez was convicted and sentenced to death. – Scott McCabe
– Scott McCabe
