He would go on to sexually assault and kill her. Later this month marks 20 years since the Dru Sjodin Memorial Scholarship was founded, which continues to keep Dru’s legacy alive.

Dru Sjodin, 22, who was a senior at the University of North Dakota studying graphic arts, was leaving her job at the Columbia Mall in Grand Forks on Nov. 22, 2003.

Dru Sjodin, 22, who was a senior at the University of North Dakota studying graphic arts, was leaving her job at the Columbia Mall in Grand Forks on Nov. 22, 2003.

Dru Sjodin, 22, who was a senior at the University of North Dakota studying graphic arts, was leaving her job at the Columbia Mall in Grand Forks on Nov. 22, 2003.

Tonight: 20/20 taking a close look at timeline of Dru Sjodin's case in 'Missing from the Mall' The episode is airing on ABC tonight, Friday, Jan. 12, at 8 p.m. Central Time. It will be available ...

On a November afternoon in 2003, Dru Sjodin, a senior at the University of North Dakota, was finishing some Christmas shopping when she vanished from the parking lot of her local mall.

Dru Sjodin, 22, was a senior at the University of North Dakota when she was abducted from a Grand Forks mall parking lot in November of 2003. Her body was found in April of 2004.

After the death sentence of Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. was overturned in Dru Sjodin’s murder, with Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ralph Erickson writing in September 2021 that McGee’s ...

Dru Sjodin disappeared from a Grand Forks, North Dakota, mall in November 2003. Her story will be on ABC News' "20/20" in a program Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.