Vicki Arleen Sundgaard, 23, disappeared from Alexandria, Minnesota in the early morning hours of Easter Sunday, April 19, 1987. She was last seen at a party on Cedar Street; her car was found the next day parked a few blocks from the party with her purse and an asthma inhaler inside. Family members say her asthma had been troublesome in the days before she vanished and that she would not have left without her inhaler. She was a mother to two young sons, ages five and three, and those close to her say she was very attached to them and would not have abandoned them.

Vicki had told her sister in the week before she disappeared that she planned to leave her husband and move away, describing the marriage as tumultuous and saying she did not trust him around the children due to his reported violent nature. Authorities investigated the husband but do not consider him a suspect. A man who was at the party, Michael Dale Benson, has been identified as a suspect; he was later convicted of raping another woman in 1989 and was civilly committed, and reportedly made admissions to other violent crimes while in custody, but he has not been charged in Vicki’s disappearance and denies involvement.

The case remains unsolved. Did anyone in the Alexandria area have contact with Vicki around April 19, 1987, or see her car after that night?