The abduction, sexual assault and strangling death of 5-year-old Alayna Ertl has shattered her small town Minnesota community – a shock made more severe by the subsequent arrest of a family ...

WALKER — Some, but not all, evidence of Alayna Ertl's August 2016 death will be allowed in the upcoming trial of Zachary Todd Anderson. He's accused of raping and killing the 5-year-old ...

WATKINS, MINN. – Alayna Ertl lived the carefree life of a 5-year-old in a small central Minnesota town. She swung a hula hoop around her small frame and rode a bicycle on city sidewalks outside ...

Alayna Jeanne Ertl's parents told police they put their daughter to bed at 2 a.m. ET Saturday morning at home in Watkins, around 60 miles northwest of Minneapolis. At 8 a.m. they discovered their ...