Between the time that 20-year-old Dakotah Abramowski was last seen on Jan. 5 and when he was reported missing Feb. 18, more than a foot of fresh snow had fallen, bringing the total amount of snow on the ground to close to two feet.

On Friday, March 31, police finally found Abramowski, deceased, his body lying in the back corner of a yard on the 700 block of Poplar Avenue, less than 500 yards from the apartment building where he was last seen.

Cloquet Police Commander Derek Randall said a homeowner was walking in her backyard Friday at approximately 2 p.m. and saw what looked like a shoe sti...