The night the police visited was dark and cold, with snow still on the ground. The Riesses’ home was in the country-a mile south on 218, past six massive grain bins that sat on the edge of town. Blooming Prairie is a town of about 1,900 people who leave their front doors unlocked and know each other by their first names.
A neat grid of quiet streets about a mile and a half square contain mostly single-story houses. There’s a two-block Main Street of brick buildings, with storefronts that include B-Z Hardware, Farmers & Merchants State Bank, and J & H Liquors. Highway 218, surrounded by vast fields of corn and soybeans. It’s a stop along the railroad tracks that run parallel to U.S. They hadn’t seen her since.Ĭoncern soon escalated to alarm, and the employees called the police.īlooming Prairie is a blink of a town in southeastern Minnesota.
But on Thursday, two worm-farm employees saw Lois, Dave’s wife of 35 years, pull out of the driveway in the Escalade. He would have taken his white Cadillac Escalade, which was what he typically used to pull his 20-foot-long boat. Stranger still, Dave was supposed to have left for a fishing tournament in Illinois on Tuesday, March 20. They had received responses to texts, but Dave usually dictated his messages, which made the words run together. He hadn’t picked up or returned their calls. None of Dave’s employees nor his business partner had seen or talked to him for almost two weeks. So too was the long, low-slung building, located about 50 paces from the front door, where Dave raised fishing bait at the Prairie Wax Worm Farm. They drove up a winding dirt drive to a modest tan rambler. On the evening of Friday, March 23, 2018, the police department in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, dispatched two officers to check on a man named Dave Riess. He is the author of nine books, including Hank Greenberg: The Hero of Heroes. John Rosengren is a journalist based in Minneapolis who has written for more than 100 publications, including The Atlantic, Sports Illustrated, and The Washington Post Magazine.
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