Overview

• Donald Edmond Warner, 46, received 24 years for one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and two counts of attempted first-degree criminal sexual conduct, plus an additional year for escaping custody.
• KSTP reports that Warner will be on supervised release for life and must register as a predatory offender.
• Investigators surveilled Warner in late 2023 and recovered a cigarette butt, which the Minnesota BCA tested before a genetic genealogy lab developed leads to identify him.
• Warner pleaded guilty in May to the criminal sexual conduct charges tied to three attacks in Chisago County.
• The assaults occurred in 2010, 2011, and 2017 and involved young women who were attacked while walking at night, according to court documents.