Look, the picture says 1920- so we're not talking today's headlines, but let's discuss a family of eight violently murdered in Turtle Lake, North Dakota. Halloween right? Read on.
Look, the picture says 1920- so we're not talking today's headlines, but let's discuss a family of eight violently murdered in Turtle Lake, North Dakota. Halloween right? Read on.
In Episode #1 of The Turtle Lake Murders podcast, reporter Tracy Briggs recapped the horrific crime that happened on the farm of the Jacob and Beata Wolf family on April 22, 1920, when seven of eight family members were killed along with their farm hand. While a neighbor confessed to the homicides, several experts are now saying it appears the wrong man might have gone to jail all those years ago.
Mystery still surrounds North Dakota's worst mass murder; who might really have killed 7 members of one Turtle Lake family? perhamfocus.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from perhamfocus.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Murder in Room 30 : In jailhouse interview, Gummer blamed jury for wrongly convicting him
In an interview just moments after he arrived at the State Penitentiary in Bismarck to start serving his life sentence for the 1921 murder of Marie Wick, William Gummer was angry, but confident his conviction won t stick. 10:00 am, Jun. 3, 2021 ×
William Gummer didn t have many nice things to say about the jury that convicted him. He said they didn t read newspapers and lacked the intelligence for this kind of case. And he claimed some of the jurors were old pioneers. Forum archives
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The sky was cloudy and the temperatures were chillier than normal that Sunday morning, March 19, 1922, when a car coming from Valley City, N.D., pulled up to the North Dakota State Penitentiary.