As a young man, Jack Hebard worked as a daredevil named Lucky O’Hara. He would crash cars and get fired from a cannon. His most famous trick was lying inside a coffin that was surrounded by exploding dynamite. Jack later told Green Bay reporter Charles House, “When I was a kid, I kind of hooked […]
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Peter A VanVeghel (1862-1934) was twice the sheriff of Brown County. With wife Antoinette Herman (1862-1941), had several children, including John Peter “Jack” VanVeghel, born on October 22, 1893 in the town of Scott, Brown County. 1916: Jack VanVeghel lost his wife and child to influenza. He was 22. Jack helped his younger brother Walter
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In 1996, federal code required that railroad tracks be inspected twice weekly. The turnout inspection section of the reports on January 11 and January 30, 1996 indicated that “all were O.K.” Also on February 5, February 12, and February 15, 1996, the turnout inspection section of the reports indicated that “all were O.K.” It was
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Sturgeon BayDecember 4, 1939: Carol Jean Fillion is born to Raymond Joseph Fillion and Pauline Elnora Knapp. As a child, Carol was of above average intelligence. She played clarinet in the high school band, and graduated on June 12, 1957.Even before graduation, Carol married Danny Dean Aungst on January 4, 1957 shortly after she turned
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Overview On July 20, 1931, the South Side State Bank in Green Bay, WI was robbed. Two officers were injured while responding to the robbery while it was in progress. Detective Gus Delloye was hit in the arm and forehead, and a piece of shrapnel entered his left eye. Chief Thomas Hawley took some glass
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Murder Overview On November 8, 1967, at 3:50 am, the Sheriff’s Office received a call that the Eugene and Mary Leroux residence was burning, and that the couple had likely died in the fire. Sheriff Check called the coroner, Joseph Bodzislaw, and they went to the Leroux residence where they discovered that the house had
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Overview On June 22, 1996, Maria Silva was found dead in her Duluth apartment she shared with Ronald Huff. A neighbor noticed a bad smell and decided to check on the apartment. Inside he found Silva’s badly decomposed corpse. The doors of the third-floor unit were deadbolted – whoever killed Silva had locked the door
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Great Lakes Pirate: The Adventures of Roaring Dan Seavey Dan Seavey, sometimes called “Roaring Dan,” is a legendary, almost mythical figure in the history of Lake Michigan and the Great Lakes. Seavey was well known in his day in northeast Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, for both good and bad reasons, and more
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Overview – Ronald Huff Convicted of Ronald Burnham’s 1968 Murder Ronald Huff, 19, was arrested, and charged with first degree murder on April 30, 1968 for the murder of Ronald Burnham. Three months prior, Huff had been released from the state reformatory. In his statement to police, Huff said that he became angered when Burnham
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Martin Jansen Martin Jansen was born March 19, 1933 in Kimberly, Wisconsin. He was a veteran of the Air Force, having served in Korea. After the war, he went to work for Kimberly-Clark as an apprentice. Jansen was shot in the back of the head with a shotgun on January 20, 1968, when he interrupted
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