Decades-Old Cold Case Solved: 84-Year-Old Man Arrested for 1974 Murder of Mary Schlais After DNA Breakthrough
Menomonie, WI — The cold case mystery of Mary Schlais, who was found tragically murdered in a rural Wisconsin snowbank in 1974, has finally seen progression. Nearly 50 years later, authorities in Dunn County, Wisconsin, arrested 84-year-old Jon Miller, charging him with first-degree murder in connection to the fatal stabbing. Mary Schlais, a 25-year-old art enthusiast from Minneapolis, met a gruesome fate while attempting to hitchhike to Chicago for an art show. According to Dunn …