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 …
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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Archibald Caldwell As the tribesmen were gathered about the mission in 1835 an epidemic of smallpox broke out among them which swept over about one-third of the tribe. Col. George Boyd, then Indian agent at Green Bay, sent to their relief a surgeon of the regular army, stationed at Fort Howard, to give them the …
Frank Frye Frank Jerald Frye was born February 8, 1906 in Pembine, Wisconsin (near Marinette), the son of Jerome Frye (1868-1948) and Emma Alice “Otie” Kuykendal (1876-1948). From 1912-1920 the family lived in Flint Rock, South Dakota and by 1922 they resided at 527 South Douglas Street in Appleton. In 1928, Frank worked as a …
John and Hilda Lingle The story of John and Hilda Lingle is not all that different from thousands, perhaps millions, of small town crimes. A few salacious details and unexpected twists allow it to stand out, however, and the story is presented here for those with prurient and morbid fascinations. Hilda Lingle, 27, was shot …
Charlotte Blob Charlotte E Blob (1936-2009), nee Modersohn, sometimes written Blobe (the way it is pronounced), was born February 16, 1936. She became interested in UFOs when allegedly employed as a ground observer for the U.S. Air Force in 1952, during which time she claimed she observed UFOs several times. As near as I can …
Charles McCarty Murder Overview On the morning of January 30, 1907, William Charles Rawlinson fired at Attorney Charles McCarty from 5 feet away. The first bullet struck the victim’s back, knocking him to the ground. The metal lodged in flesh under his right shoulder blade. McCarty took a second bullet in the back of the …
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Michael McCarty Murder Overview On the early evening of September 13, 1905, Michael McCarty, 41, told teenage farmhand Julius Heimke, that he was going to Wrightstown, and he may not return the next day. Heimke arrived at the farm the next morning, and only Wenzel Kabat was there. Kabat allegedly said that he (Kabat) was …
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