LUVERNE, N.D. (AP) – A preliminary autopsy has found that a 53-year-old rural Steele County woman found dead in a ravine died of drowning.
Rhonda Gjesdal (JESS’-dahl) of rural Luverne was found Saturday in one to two feet of water about 200 yards from her farmstead.
     Sheriff Wayne Beckman says Rhonda Gjesdal left her farmstead
Thursday en route to Wahpeton.

Her car was found Saturday at the bottom of a ravine about a mile from her farmstead.
     Beckman says it appears she went into the ditch Thursday night
and walked the ravine area for quite some time. He says it was very
muddy at the bottom of the ravine and she may have been exhausted
from her walk.
     He says the preliminary autopsy shows no signs of foul play.