Lingering questions in the 2005 deaths of two Regent teenagers will be reviewed by top law enforcement officials to see whether they were adequately answered during the original investigation.

Louis Jahner, 19, and Kjirsten Carson, 16, were killed in a one-vehicle car crash less than a gravel mile north of New Leipzig.

Their parents, especially Louis Jahner's father, Roger, believe it's possible the two were chased to their deaths by pursuing troublemakers from a party all of them were at more than 20 miles away.

An extensive investigation by the North Dakota Highway Patrol and the Bureau of Criminal Investigation did not lead to that conclusion and instead determined that speed and alcohol contributed to the fatal rollover.

Grant County State's Attorney Jim Vukelic said he met Tuesday with the heads of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the North Dakota Highway Patrol to review the parents' questions.

Vukelic said Jerry Kemmet, director of the BCI, and Highway Patrol Col. Mark Nelson agreed to ask their investigators if the questions the parents still have were asked and answered.

"They'll take a look and then we'll meet again" Aug. 7, Vukelic said. "We won't know until they meet with their people if there will be anything new to do, or not."

Vukelic met earlier with parents Jim and Sallee Carlson and Roger and Renae Jahner shortly after a retired New Jersey chief of detectives completed a 65-page, very critical analysis of the North Dakota investigation.

Former detective David Heater, who got involved at Roger Jahner's request, concluded it was very possible the two were chased by other young people from the party and that possibly two other drivers were dogging the Louis Jahner and Kjirsten Carlson vehicle down one ditch, across the road, and into the other, where Louis Jahner, the driver, finally lost control.

Heater said the speed reconstruction done by the Highway Patrol defies physics and that the patrol's own investigation failed to find evidence either in the ditch or on the gravel road that Louis Jahner left pavement and hit the gravel road traveling in excess of 80 mph.

Louis Jahner's blood alcohol was above the legal limit and he was driving Kjirsten Carlson home from the party because she also was inebriated and sick.

Roger Jahner said he wants answers to the same questions he had within two weeks of the October 2005 crash. Among other details, he wants to know how investigators concluded other vehicle tracks at the scene that went in and out of the ditch were not related when they didn't protect the scene in first place and why certain witnesses from the drinking party were not questioned in more detail.

Vukelic said he wouldn't comment on Heater's report.

He said he took the step of meeting with the BCI and Highway Patrol because the parents have "questions and I want to do what I can to ease their situation."

(Reach reporter Lauren Donovan at 888-303-5511, or lauren@;westriv.com.)