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7 years after filing a missing persons report, his son and wife came clean about the murder

Forensic genealogy solved the 2013 murder of Gary Herbst, leading authorities to charge his wife, Connie Herbst, and son, Austin Herbst, after a dog discovered a skull in rural Wisconsin.
In 2013, Austin shot his father, Gary, in their Elko New Market, Minnesota home, wrapped the body in carpet, and removed it while Connie initially claimed her husband went missing.
A dog discovered a skull in Barron County, Wisconsin, in 2017 with a clear gunshot wound; The DNA Doe Project partnered with the Barron County Sheriff to identify the remains.
Austin confessed to the killing in 2020 at age 26, receiving a 12-year, 6-month sentence, while Connie pleaded guilty to aiding an offender and served 3 months of her 2-year, 3-month term.
The 48 Hours episode, "What the Neighbors Saw," available on Paramount, details the investigation, including neighbors' accounts of the Herbsts hauling a rolled-up carpet from their home the night Gary disappeared.

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7 years after filing a missing persons report, his son and wife came clean about the murder

ELKO NEW MARKET, Minn. — Austin Herbst thought he got away with his father’s murder for seven years — until a dog dug up a skull and brought it home to his owners in rural Wisconsin. In 2020, he was 26 when he confessed to killing his father, previously considered a missing person. Gary Herbst, 57 when he vanished in 2013 from his home in Elko New Market, Minnesota, where he lived with his son and wife, Connie Herbst. His disappearance wasn’t im…

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