At 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 22, 2003, Sjodin, a 22-year-old college student at the University of North Dakota and Gamma Phi Beta sorority member, finished her shift at the Victoria's Secret store located in the Columbia Mall in Grand Forks, North Dakota [REF].
A week later, on December 1, a suspect, 50-year-old registered level-3 sex offender Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr.,[REF] was arrested in connection with Sjodin's disappearance [REF].