Roseville police identify person of interest in 1987 unsolved homicide

Roseville, Minnesota police have identified a person of interest in a decades-old unsolved homicide, and are asking for the public to help connect the dots in the cold case.

Sue Capistrant’s body was found behind a Roseville grocery store around 7:30 a.m. on April 8, 1987. The 22-year-old was last seen around 1 a.m. that day leaving her parents’ home in Roseville, where she lived, police say.

Investigators have identified Robert Osborne, who died in 1996, as a person of interest. Police say that aside from their similar ages — Osborne was born in 1963 — and the fact that he lived nearby, investigators cannot find a connection between him and Capistrant.

According to investigators, hours before she died, Capistrant received a phone call from an unknown caller after returning home from a night out at Patrick’s Lounge in St. Paul…

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