Jan 27, 2022
The community of Glyndon, Minnesota was in shock Christmas morning 1947 when a father shot and killed one daughter and wounded another, before turning the gun on himself. After the deaths (and the hospitalization of little Betty Lou Hanson) the community rallied to help the family. The story attracted national...
Jan 25, 2022
A look back at the devastating Tropics Nightclub arson fire of April 2000, started by co-owner John Michael Maurer. He first tried to blame the fire on an intruder but later admitted setting it to cover his financial problems. While no one was seriously hurt, the fire created months, even years of hardship for the...
Jan 11, 2022
On a cold November morning, a 53-year-old woman and her 7-year-old granddaughter would be found brutally murdered at a motel in Dickinson — the crime so gruesome and heinous that it would garner national media and law enforcement attention, before going cold for a decade.
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Jan 6, 2022
On June 7, 2007, Minot State University student Anita Knutson was found stabbed to death in her off-campus apartment. Her body was discovered by her father and two apartment maintenance workers.
For nearly fifteen years, family members and friends of Anita Knutson have lived with an aching grief, intensified by a lack...
Jan 4, 2022
On the night of Friday the 13th in November 1987, deer hunters were gearing up for the opening weekend, a fire burned in a swamp on the edge of town, an unremarkable brown car was stolen and the employee of the month at the local Hardee's vanished without a trace.
Those events are either coincidental, or the keys to...