In 1980, a Minnesota woman and her 8-year-old daughter were kidnapped and held for 53 days. This is their story
Mary and Irv Stauffer sat down with Forum News Service to recall their tale of terror that happened 39 years ago.
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Rick Weegman / Forum News Service | 10:13 am, Oct. 3, 2019 ×
Mary Stauffer looks at a photo of the closet where she and her eight-year-old daughter were imprisoned after Ming Sen Shiue kidnapped them in 1980. The pair escaped after 53 days. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
HERMANTOWN, Minn. Days before Duluth native Mary Stauffer and her family were scheduled to leave for the Philippines on a four-year Baptist missionary trip, she took her 8-year-old daughter, Beth, to get a haircut in suburban St. Paul.
We had asked Allen to come and read his poetic clarion call
Howl as one way of putting the new, very small, branch of the provincial university, long denied to the city, on the map. We would bring the world into it again.
I have a photograph of Allen standing together with Chanchi Mehta, my old teacher, trouper and Indian playwright, local poet Alden Nowlan, and I. Allen is telling us that the previous night he had picked up the Gideon Bible by his bedside and re-read
The Book of
Ecclesiastes. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. One long, bloody, bitter poem, was how Allen described it.
In 1980, a Minnesota woman and her 8-year-old daughter were kidnapped and held for 53 days. This is their story
Mary and Irv Stauffer sat down with Forum News Service to recall their tale of terror that happened 39 years ago.
Written By:
Rick Weegman / Forum News Service | 10:13 am, Oct. 3, 2019 ×
Mary Stauffer looks at a photo of the closet where she and her eight-year-old daughter were imprisoned after Ming Sen Shiue kidnapped them in 1980. The pair escaped after 53 days. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
HERMANTOWN, Minn. Days before Duluth native Mary Stauffer and her family were scheduled to leave for the Philippines on a four-year Baptist missionary trip, she took her 8-year-old daughter, Beth, to get a haircut in suburban St. Paul.