Authorities renew tips appeal in 1999 Nathan Edberg disappearance

Nathan Edberg has been missing for 27 years, and Ramsey County investigators are again asking the public to help solve what happened after the 21-year-old vanished on April 14, 1999. Lead investigator Miles Kensler, who has worked the case for 10 years, is hoping newly released age-progressed photos will prompt someone to recognize Edberg or remember a detail that has sat unresolved for decades.

Edberg was last seen at Decoy Bar and Grill in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, where records say he had left his wallet before driving off. A Minnesota State Patrol trooper later found his pickup truck abandoned in a ditch near Highways 694 and 35E in Vadnais Heights. The truck was locked, turned off and had the keys inside, with no sign of a struggle, a stark set of details that has kept the case open while answers never surfaced.

Official missing-person records describe Edberg as about 6 feet 4 inches tall and 210 pounds. State materials say he wore a white shirt and light or charcoal gray corduroy pants, had two earrings in his left ear and usually wore wire-framed glasses while driving. NamUs lists his date of last contact as April 14, 1999, and state records say no one has seen or heard from him since.

The renewed appeal is aimed at people who may have heard a conversation years ago, noticed a vehicle near White Bear Lake or Vadnais Heights, or knew Edberg from the days before he disappeared. Investigators say even the smallest recollection could matter now, especially as age-progressed images circulate in hopes that someone will connect the adult face with the young man who vanished in 1999.

Anyone with information about Nathan Edberg’s disappearance is being asked to contact the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office. For a case that has stretched across nearly three decades, the next useful lead may come from a memory that never seemed important enough to share.