Mary Schlais Part 1 of 2

DNA: ID

AbJack Entertainment

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Episode 158 Mary Schlais Part 1 of 2

In one of the oldest cold case homicides solved by IGG, Mary Schlais's shocking murder in Dunn County, WI was finally resolved. Way back in 1974, a witness saw the killer disposing of Mary's bloody body in a snowbank, and the killer dropped something at the scene… and yet, his identity eluded investigators for 50 years. Dunn County investigators never gave up on Mary's case, and when investigative genetic genealogy came along, they jumped at the opportunity, once and for all, to obtain justice for the bright, multi-lingual, artistic young equestrian who had her whole life ahead of her until it was snatched away with a few thrusts of a knife. Finally, they had a name for the monster who stabbed Mary to death. And what they would hear from him was shocking.

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0:41.3	I'm The It was 1974.
1:22.8	After lunch on a snowy Friday, the 15th of February, Dennis Anderson was in his car,
1:30.7	returning to his home in a rural area of the town of Springbrook in Chile-Dun County, Wisconsin.
1:37.2	He and his dog had driven the short distance to the Elk Lake store for some provisions,
1:42.1	and after a brief shopping trip, we're on their way home.
1:45.1	As Dennis cautiously motored down the snow-covered roadway, a small gold-colored car parked on the
1:51.2	side of the road up ahead caught his eye. He saw a man standing on the other side of the car,
1:56.5	who appeared to have just roughly removed a young man from the back seat. The man threw the young person from where he lay on the ground into a roadside ditch
2:05.0	and then started scooping and piling snow onto the person in the ditch.
2:10.0	Dennis drove by slowly, staring, and made eye contact with the man throwing the snow,
2:15.3	whom he later said was glaring at him.
2:18.6	Dennis drove on, but what he had seen didn't sit well with him. He couldn't put his finger on it,
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