A quirk of fate; Car accident kills 3 teens just hours after they meet Prom night in Wells, Minn., took a tragic turn when Anna Bixby borrowed a friend's car to find a boyfriend. Hours later, she and two teens she'd just met were dead in the car at the bottom of Fountain Lake in downtown Albert Lea.(NEWS)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: April 30, 1996| Author: Meryhew, Richard | Copyright information

One lived in Wells, another in Alden, the third in Albert Lea.

One was celebrating her high school prom, another was hanging out with friends in a downtown parking lot, the third was home celebrating a Saturday night.

Odds were against them ever meeting up.

But early Sunday morning, Anna Bixby grabbed the keys to a friend's car and left a post-prom party at an Albert Lea motel to look for a boyfriend she had known for three weeks. As fate would have...

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