The first question was probably, Has anyone seen Billy?
A few days after Billy Wolf disappeared, on a Sunday in August of 1978, a young man paddling his canoe in the Red River north of Fargo-Moorhead asked himself a different question:
What in the world is that?
Perhaps the person (or persons) who killed 21-year-old Billy Wolf asked their own questions.
How did they find his body so quickly? The killers had gone to the trouble of slashing Billy s throat, cutting his body in half and stuffing it into two plastic garbage bags. Then they tossed the bags into the Red River (or one of its tributaries). But the bags got caught up in tree branches and much like the homicide investigation that would follow never really got anywhere.
In the fourth episode of Chasing Billy, Dakota Spotlight and Forum Communications follow up on two leads sent into the tip line. Both tips included the name of someone they felt may have killed Billy Wolf. Law enforcement are familiar with one of these men but the other may be a name they have never heard before.
In looking at the lives of these two men, we travel from Utah, to the HI-10 motel in Fargo. This journey takes us into the world of illegal drugs, stolen guns, the alleged ‘Fargo Mafia’ and more.
Listen to the fourth episode of Chasing Billy: A Pursuit for Justice in the fourth season of true crime podcast Dakota Spotlight. (Or start with Episode 1, Episode 2 and Episode 3)