KIMBALL, Minn. — Friday, May 13, marked 40 years since a bomb rocked a small Minnesota town and took the life of the assistant postmaster. Someone sent that bomb in the mail in Kimball. Ivend Holen, 60, died in the blast as he sorted through packages that May morning.
No arrest has ever been made in the case.
But investigators aren’t ruling out a man once named a suspect in Jacob Wetterling’s disappearance.
Even a 5-year-old could understand the severity of that phone call. Jennifer Harriel remembers it as the moment her grandpa was gone.
“You don’t forget that,” she said.
Holen went to work as assistant postmaster in Kimball on May 13, 1976. As he sorted mail at 6:42 a.m. a bomb exploded — the blast so strong it blew glass across the street. Read more
Article posted by request. PEN