On this date in 1974, Eunice Kronholm is kidnapped by two masked men outside her home in Lino Lakes. Eunice was the wife of Gunnar E. Kronholm, President of Drovers State Bank in South St. Paul. On the morning of the kidnapping, Mrs. Kronholm had been outside the family home scraping ice off her car’s […]
Gangsters/Crime
1935-12-09
On this date in 1935, Walter W. Liggett is murdered in a drive-by shooting in Minneapolis. Liggett was an investigative journalist and editor of the newspaper Midwest American.
1901-07-14
On this date in 1901, Jim and Cole Younger are released from the Minnesota State Prison in Stillwater and paroled on the on the condition they remain in Minnesota.
