Minneapolis CNN  —  For decades, Vance Boelter seemed to be living a typical midwestern American life. His resume showed him climbing the corporate ladder at food service companies like Gerber and 7-Eleven as he raised a family with five kids and two German shepherds and bought a series of bigger and bigger homes in Wisconsin and Minnesota suburbs. Then, in 2021, Boelter abruptly quit his job and headed to the Democratic Republic of Congo on what he described as a mission to end world hunger.