'Divine Intervention': How a Bible led to justice for a murdered farmer

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'You're always looking for that one nugget, that one thing that comes in that allows you to solve the case.'

A Bible belonging to Earl Olander helped lead investigators to his killers, police said.When 90-year-old farmer Earl Olander was found murdered in his rural Minnesota home in 2015, investigators had very little evidence and no leads for weeks.

"You could tell that the suspects had spent a significant amount of time in the house going through all the drawers and cupboards," Chris Wagner, the former lead investigator for the Carver County Sheriff's Office told "20/20." " Money has always been in a lot of crimes that you're looking into." Kyles searched for Olander's name on the Internet and quickly discovered that he had been murdered, and that there was a reward. Olson told "20/20" that the Norwegian Bible was over 100 years old and belonged to Olander's family.Investigators turned their attention to Edson Benitez, who lived in the apartment that Kyles cleaned.

Benitez said he waited in his car while Vergara went into Olander's house with a black duffel bag that allegedly had duct tape and a gun, according to investigators.

 

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So he had millions but they never said who his money went to. This was such a tragic story of undocumented workers.

How did the two robbers know the victim?

You're move, atheists!!

Probably a republican that did it.

This was a great story, and very well told.

I mean he was still murdered.

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