Our card this week is Belinda Van Lith, the Queen of Hearts from Minnesota.

This is part two of Belinda's story.

If you're just tuning in, be sure to go back and listen to part one

so you can follow along.

Last week we walked through the initial investigation

into the nearly five decade old missing person case of

17 year old Belinda Van Lith. Despite her disappearance essentially being

considered a runaway situation by police initially, they had quickly come around to the possibility that

perhaps Belinda had met with foul play. And there were some people close to the

cabin she was last known to be at that were looking like promising suspects, but police never had

enough evidence to move forward, and her case went cold for almost three decades.

When we left off last time, investigators were 28 years into their investigation with little to show for it, when suddenly in 2002 a relative came forward to police with a story that they hadn't heard before.

And that's where we're picking up.

I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the deck. Oh, The relative coming forward was Belinda's second cousin and she said one or two years

prior so that would have been like 2000, 2001.

She was hanging out with her sister talking about their old high school days

when her sister brought up an incident that she had never heard before.

This sister claimed that she was in the car with their mom and their Aunt Carol when suddenly

Aunt Carol started talking about a time when another relative, a guy named Rodney Meinsma,

was at her house and very drunkenly appeared to confess to something.

He told Carol he'd given Belinda a ride.

He talked about his brother Ronald and said it got out of hand and it happened near a

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