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James Mervin Nibbe

Case from Lake Crystal, MN dated Aug 31, 2010

Victim Details

James Mervin Nibbe

Male

White / Caucasian

Lake Crystal

MN

2010-08-31

26

James

Mervin Nibbe

06/30/2026

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In the pre-dawn hours of August 31, 2010, the quiet of rural Lake Crystal, Minnesota, was broken by a frantic 911 call from Jennifer Nibbe. She told the dispatcher that an intruder, his head covered by a nylon stocking, had broken into her home, shot her 26-year-old husband, James Mervin Nibbe, a White male, and then attacked her before fleeing. When police arrived, they found James, an apprentice electrician, dead in his bed from a single gunshot wound to the back of his head. Jennifer claimed ...
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