A Level 3 Offender Moved to Burnsville. The Notice Left Out His Murder Conviction.

Edgar Earl Lenear moved into the 13900 block of Preserve Boulevard West in Burnsville on July 1. He is 69. Burnsville PD issued the standard Level 3 notice on July 9 — a one-page fact sheet with a photo, an address block, and a paragraph on the registrable offense.

That paragraph describes a 2003 conviction for first-degree criminal sexual conduct: in 1993 he broke into an adult woman's home, used a weapon to control her, and sexually assaulted her. He was released from custody on February 19, 2026, and remains under supervision.

That is the whole notice. The court record holds more.

Lenear also has a second-degree murder conviction from 1997, a burglary conviction from 1995, and two more felony convictions — one in 2018, one in September 2025 — for failing to register as a sex offender. The 2025 registration case, not the 2003 sex crime, is why he was released from prison in February.

A Level 3 fact sheet is scoped by law to the registrable offense, not a full record. The rest of Lenear's court file is public.

The 2003 case took nine years to charge. The assault occurred in 1993; Hennepin County did not file charges until 2002. The initial sentence was 344 months — a large upward departure from the guidelines — followed by years of appeals on constitutional grounds before a judge set 91 months in 2008. Two published Court of Appeals opinions lay out that history.

The murder is not on the flyer, and legally did not have to be. In 1996 Lenear killed someone; Anoka County originally charged first-degree premeditated murder, then dropped that charge the same day he was convicted of second-degree murder. The murder sentence is not in Minnesota's online court records — the pre-1998 file was never digitized. The only documents online from that case are two 2020 filings authorizing the release or destruction of trial exhibits, filed 23 years after the conviction; the exhibits are not described.

The registration cases explain the current relocation. Lenear finished his sentence on the 2003 case years ago. He has since been convicted twice of failing to register. The first was in 2018: charged in July, pleaded guilty and sentenced the same day in November, a stayed sentence plus 180 days in the county workhouse; he was off probation by the end of 2021.

The second registration case is the one that matters here.

He was charged again in October 2023. The case did not resolve quietly — discovery demands, pretrial motions, and five separate witness lists were filed in the month before it closed. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced the same day, September 30, 2025: twelve months, with 101 days credited for time served. That credit lines up with a February 19 release.

A sentencing departure was filed in both the 2018 and 2025 cases, meaning a judge went outside the guidelines both times. The public docket does not state the direction of either departure. A separate "Order for Conditional Release" was filed in June 2025, months before the plea; given the timing it likely concerns pretrial release conditions rather than the ten-year supervision term tied to his Level 3 status, but the docket does not spell it out.

Minnesota's DOC registry lists Lenear's current supervision as Intensive Supervised Release — the most hands-on tier — under agent Chad Blake. The Burnsville fact sheet lists a different contact, Lance Culliver. The two names do not line up anywhere in the public record. The DOC file also carries five spelling variants of his name (mostly Lanier vs. Lenear); a court-records search under those spellings returns no additional cases.

Lenear has served his time on the burglary, the murder, and the sex crime, and Minnesota law lets him live where he chooses once that is true. The gap worth noting is between a one-page notice that lists a single 2003 conviction and what the full court record holds: a murder conviction, a burglary, and two convictions for failing to do the one thing the registry requires of him.

Not in the public record: the murder sentence, the direction of the two sentencing departures, the subject of the June 2025 conditional-release order, and whether Burnsville plans an in-person notification meeting or is leaving it at the flyer.