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Photos: Remembering Katie Poirier

Donald Blom, the subject of one of the largest police investigations in state history after teenaged convenience store worker Katie Poirier disappeared in 1999, died Tuesday while serving a life sentence without parole for her murder.

By Star Tribune staff

January 11, 2023 at 9:24PM
Steve and Pam Poirier, parents of Katie Poirier, who was abducted from her job at a gas station in nearby Moose Lake, talked about their daughter.
Katie Poirier, shown in this undated family handout with her dogs Goldie, right, and Riley.
Donald Blom en route to sentencing in 2000.
DNR enforcement officer Rich Hansen directed volunteers as they searched a woods along County Line Road east of where the suspect in the disappearance of Katie Poirier had a trailer.
Law enforcement officers and civilian volunteers scoured the wooded countryside near the Moose Lake store where Katie Poirier was abducted.
Debra Axtell, of Willow River, Minn., rested after more than an hour of searching for clues to the disappearance of Katie Poirier in the woods along County Line Road east of Moose Lake.
Donald A. Blom, shown in a sheriff's mug shot from June 20, 1999.
A sign and flowers at the gas station where Katie Poirier was kidnapped.
Katie Fleckenstein and her mom, the Rev. Cheryl Fleckenstein, wrote their thoughts on a memory scroll during a celebration of Katie Poirier's life at Barnum High School in1999.
Pam Poirier, mother of Katie Poirier, and Pam's sister Debbie Krampf sat by the family fire pit where they have spent hours reflecting and retelling stories about Katie in 1999.
A small memorial to Katie Poirier was placed at the entrance to Donald Blom's rural Moose Lake home.
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Steve and Pam Poirier, parents of Katie Poirier, who was abducted from her job at a gas station in nearby Moose Lake, talked about their daughter. (Tom Sweeney, Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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