ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — Two of the three suspects in the kidnapping and assault of a 15-year-old Alexandria girl were best friends and had attended high school in Alexandria together, said the mother of one of them.

Lisa Barker, mother of suspect Thomas Jay Barker, 32, lives not far from the trailer house where police say the three men held the teen prisoner even as family and law enforcement officers desperately searched for her in the days and weeks after she disappeared.

http://www.twincities.com/2017/09/06/mom-two-kidnapping-suspects-were-best-friends-roommates/