This case takes us to the state of North Dakota, which is located next to the following states: Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
WARNINGS OF MURDER
When a family's washing is left flapping in April's windy, soggy weather through one day and night into another day, neighbours are bound to take notice.
John Kraft did one April morning in 1920 as he drove on his way to Turtle Lake past the farmstead of the Jacob Wolf family.
There on the clothes line he saw the same white and coloured garments whipping in the brisk wind that he had seen on the lines the day before, odd, he thought, and he decided to investigate.
Entering the farm yard, he started towards the house when his attention was attracted by an odd sound of rooting pigs in a nearby barn, the hanging barn boor banged gently so Kraft stepped into a lean-to section.
A horrified gasp escaped Kraft's lips as he halted frozen by what he saw there, half covered by dirt and hay were the bodies of his neighbour, Jacob Wolf, and two of Wolf's young daughters, Maria and Edna, seconds later he gazed horror stricken through a trapdoor leading into the basement of the house, down o five more mangled, mutilated bodies and in a cradle in a small bedroom he found a lightly clad, eight month old baby, weak from hunger and cold, she was the only survivor of the Wolf family murder.
This case started a manhunt that is without parallel in North Dakota criminal annals and ranks as one of the most sensational in the states history.
Henery Layer confessed to the crime for the murder of the Wolf family and he plead guiltily, its unknown if he is still alive, if he escaped prison or if he died in prison.
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