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Guest
Birth Date: 2/5/1949 South St. Paul
Location: UNDISCLOSED
Admit Date: 8/18/2000
Penalty-Guilty, Life sentence without parole
Victim-Kathlyn "Katie" Poirier
Year-1999
OID Number: 111324
Previous Conviction-Registered sex offender, 6 felonies and five of them sex-related and kidnapping
Other names-Donald Aubin Hutchinson, Donald Albin Pince, Donald Albin Prince, Timothy Edward Whitmore, John Fitzgerald Koppel, John Koppel, Dennis Allen Franklin
Crime Timeline-
April 4 75-Aggravated assault on 15-year-old
December 23 75-1st-degree rape and kidnapping on 14-year-old
1976-Sentenced to 40 years in prison
1979-Released after serving 3 years
October 11-81-Attempted sex assault on 13-year-old
September 19 82-4th-degree sex assault on 15-year-old
July 2 83-Kidnapping, 2nd-degree sex assault on 16-year-old
July 1983-Hitched a ride from two teenage girls north of Stillwater, he pulled out a 10-to 12-inch knife and demanded money, ordered them to the floor of the car. At one point, he put one of the girls in the trunk and drove off to a wooded area. He then marched the girls into the woods, where he tied them up with shoelaces and a towel. He blindfolded one girl and stuffed a sock in her mouth to keep her quiet. Her tongue was cut. He then threatened, choked and assaulted the girls for nearly an hour while smoking cigarettes and drinking from a bottle of cheap strawberry wine. The assault ended when a Washington County sheriff's deputy happened by, spotted the deserted car and ran a check on the license plates. Blom fled, and the girls freed themselves.
Between his March 1989 supervised release and final discharge on March 14, 1992
1991-Marriage to Grace Ann Hutchinson lasted less than a year. She got an annulment after learning about his criminal past
1992-A psychologist warned that Pince, now named Donald Albin Blom, should be supervised by a mental-health professional or there could be consequences with "potentially devastating results."
March 1993 Blom landed a job as a janitor at the Minneapolis Veterans Home. He missed stretches of work after finding in 1995 that he had throat cancer, court records show. Still, Blom was able to hide his criminal past from his employer. He also was able to keep it from his neighbors in Richfield, where he has lived the past several years with his wife, Amy Blom, and four children.
May 26, 1999-19-year-old Katie Elizabeth Poirier went missing from the D. J.'s Expressway Conoco convenience store in Moose Lake, Minnesota
August 16, 2000-convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole
Suspected Victims
Modus operandi-Changing his name and appearance after each incident
His own admission was that he often would leave for entire nights, would be using alcohol and drugs and would not remember when he came home the next day, where he had been or what he did.
We feel pretty strongly Donald Blom has been involved in a number of (killings)," said Dennis Fier, an investigator with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension who is looking into the cases.
Possible victims-
Holly Danielle Spangler (1973 - 1993)-Spangler's decomposed body was found in the woods of a Bloomington, Minnesota park. Blom was living in the area under the name "Donald Pince", and was a registered sex offender. At that time, he was one of the top suspects in the case.
Wilma Johnson-Strangulation of Wilma Johnson. Her body was found near the St. Paul Cathedral in 1983. Blom admits being at the crime scene but denies killing her.
I-70 Killer
Location: UNDISCLOSED
Admit Date: 8/18/2000
Penalty-Guilty, Life sentence without parole
Victim-Kathlyn "Katie" Poirier
Year-1999
OID Number: 111324
Previous Conviction-Registered sex offender, 6 felonies and five of them sex-related and kidnapping
Other names-Donald Aubin Hutchinson, Donald Albin Pince, Donald Albin Prince, Timothy Edward Whitmore, John Fitzgerald Koppel, John Koppel, Dennis Allen Franklin
Crime Timeline-
April 4 75-Aggravated assault on 15-year-old
December 23 75-1st-degree rape and kidnapping on 14-year-old
1976-Sentenced to 40 years in prison
1979-Released after serving 3 years
October 11-81-Attempted sex assault on 13-year-old
September 19 82-4th-degree sex assault on 15-year-old
July 2 83-Kidnapping, 2nd-degree sex assault on 16-year-old
July 1983-Hitched a ride from two teenage girls north of Stillwater, he pulled out a 10-to 12-inch knife and demanded money, ordered them to the floor of the car. At one point, he put one of the girls in the trunk and drove off to a wooded area. He then marched the girls into the woods, where he tied them up with shoelaces and a towel. He blindfolded one girl and stuffed a sock in her mouth to keep her quiet. Her tongue was cut. He then threatened, choked and assaulted the girls for nearly an hour while smoking cigarettes and drinking from a bottle of cheap strawberry wine. The assault ended when a Washington County sheriff's deputy happened by, spotted the deserted car and ran a check on the license plates. Blom fled, and the girls freed themselves.
Between his March 1989 supervised release and final discharge on March 14, 1992
1991-Marriage to Grace Ann Hutchinson lasted less than a year. She got an annulment after learning about his criminal past
1992-A psychologist warned that Pince, now named Donald Albin Blom, should be supervised by a mental-health professional or there could be consequences with "potentially devastating results."
March 1993 Blom landed a job as a janitor at the Minneapolis Veterans Home. He missed stretches of work after finding in 1995 that he had throat cancer, court records show. Still, Blom was able to hide his criminal past from his employer. He also was able to keep it from his neighbors in Richfield, where he has lived the past several years with his wife, Amy Blom, and four children.
May 26, 1999-19-year-old Katie Elizabeth Poirier went missing from the D. J.'s Expressway Conoco convenience store in Moose Lake, Minnesota
August 16, 2000-convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole
Suspected Victims
Modus operandi-Changing his name and appearance after each incident
His own admission was that he often would leave for entire nights, would be using alcohol and drugs and would not remember when he came home the next day, where he had been or what he did.
We feel pretty strongly Donald Blom has been involved in a number of (killings)," said Dennis Fier, an investigator with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension who is looking into the cases.
Possible victims-
Holly Danielle Spangler (1973 - 1993)-Spangler's decomposed body was found in the woods of a Bloomington, Minnesota park. Blom was living in the area under the name "Donald Pince", and was a registered sex offender. At that time, he was one of the top suspects in the case.
Wilma Johnson-Strangulation of Wilma Johnson. Her body was found near the St. Paul Cathedral in 1983. Blom admits being at the crime scene but denies killing her.
I-70 Killer
