On March 20, 2023, the body of 25-year-old Rodney Pendegayosh Jr. of Isle, Minnesota, was found inside a storage container near the southwestern shore of Lake Mille Lacs in Kathio Township. Highway maintenance workers opened the container and discovered Pendegayosh’s remains; his family had reported him missing the day before. An autopsy determined he died from a shotgun blast to the chest.

The investigation quickly produced an arrest. Authorities took 21-year-old Bradley Allen Weyaus of Isle into custody after a police pursuit. Investigators recovered a spent shotgun shell, a hammer, a hacksaw, and industrial tape in Weyaus’s vehicle; the tape matched materials used to seal the container. A search of an apartment where Weyaus had been staying turned up blood-stained carpets and Pendegayosh’s identification card. A motive was reported linking the killing to the January 2023 overdose death of 23-year-old Brandon Elling; Bradley Weyaus’s girlfriend, 21-year-old Alexis M. Elling, was reported to have admitted helping move the container and to have sold the firearm used in the killing.

Does anyone have information about Rodney’s last known movements in Isle or sightings between the family’s missing-person report and March 20, 2023?