Donald Blom, killer of Katie Poirier, dies in Minn. prison

Donald Blom leaves the St. Louis County Courthouse in Virginia, Minn., on Aug. 16, 2000, on his way to Carlton County to be sentenced. Blom, the man convicted in the 1999 killing of convenience store clerk Katie Poirier in a case that shook Minnesota, has died while serving a prison sentence of life without parole, the Department of Corrections said Wednesday.
Mike Zerby | Star Tribune via AP
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