One of the many strange angles of the Vance Boelter story is his wife, Jenny. It was known that Boelter is, or has been married, but his wife was curiously absent from early news coverage of Boelter’s murders. Now we know why:
The wife of suspected political assassin Vance Boetler is being detained and questioned after cops found a weapon, ammunition, cash and passports in her car during a traffic stop on Saturday morning, a report said.
So Mrs. Boelter seems to have been in on it, if not before the murders were committed, by some time yesterday morning.
Jenny Boelter was stopped by police while driving in a car with several relatives near Onamia, Minnesota, late Saturday morning around 10 a.m…
What relatives? The Boelters have five children, so they are possibilities. It is not known whether Mrs. Boelter was arrested, or only questioned.
Onamia is north of the Twin Cities on Highway 169, so Jenny Boulter apparently was heading for northern Minnesota and possibly Canada. The search for Vance Boelter, meanwhile, has expanded to South Dakota.
One aspect of the story on which there doesn’t seem to be any news is Vance Boulter’s appointment by Governor Walz to the governor’s Workforce Development Board. That board has quite a few notable members. I think it is coincidental, but one current member of the board is Senator John Hoffman, whom Boelter shot yesterday. Boelter’s certificate of appointment is signed by Walz, “because of the special trust and confidence I have in your integrity, judgment, and ability.” I don’t suppose there is a reporter in the State of Minnesota who would have the temerity to ask Walz about his relationship with Boelter, and how Boelter came to receive that appointment.
