On
June 27, 2014, the body of 20-year-old Andrew Sadek, a promising electrical
student at the North Dakota State College of Science (NDSCS) in Wahpeton, North
Dakota, was pulled from the Red River bordering North Dakota and
Minnesota.
Missing for two months, the young man was found shot in the
head, wearing a backpack filled with rocks.
The grisly death of a
college student in one of the safest towns in the state, where violent crime is
extremely rare, did not lead to a sweeping investigation. In fact, police
immediately said they did not suspect foul play.
Such a supposition
strains credulity as it is, but what would be slowly revealed over the following
months is that Andrew had been working as a confidential informant for the
police, and that his school knew that authorities were busting its students and
using them as bait to catch drug dealers.
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