More recent postings . . .

Check this column from time to time for interesting pieces
of information from the author's research files
not previously posted on this website.
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Shotgun shells in a chicken's nest?

Who opened the coffins?

Henry Layer's Legal Team

More arrests 10 months after the murders?

Click to view another funeral photo at Wolf farm

How many were killed in the kitchen?

What happened the night
Layer confessed?

Langer hires outside investigators

Investigators offer $1,000 reward

"Several" arrests to be made

Layer worries about being a suspect

Wrong date of birth on grave marker

Bismarck Police Chief Receives Reward

"Seer" Seeks Governor's Reward

Wolf farm auction newspaper ad

Layer boy, 6, killed in farm accident

                      Facts Behind the Fiction
​                       and Confession Issues

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Over the years since the book
was published, the author has posted
a series of facts behind the story and issues about the confession
to offer additional background
and perspective on the mystery
of the Wolf family murders.
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More than 50 interesting Facts
and 10 Confessions Issues
are available through the links below.
Here is the first from each list:

Novel Fact #1: ANTI-GERMAN PROPAGANDA. The Wolf family was murdered only 17 months after the end of World War 1. During the war Germans living in the US experienced a growing anti-German propaganda campaign that portrayed Germans as butchers, murderers and baby killers. Old stereotypes were revived with the murder of the Wolf family and their hired boy, all German Russians, as was the man who was sentenced to life in prison for the murders.
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CONFESSION ISSUE 1. The neighbor farmer sentenced to life in prison for the Wolf family murders began his confession by explaining that he arrived at the Wolf farm at about 11:30 a.m. (“I left my own home at about 11 o’clock a.m. and walked about one mile south following the section line and then walked from the north into Wolf’s farm yard, arriving there at about 11:30 a. m.). However, a woman in town reported that she was talking on the phone to Mrs. Wolf about 10 o’clock when the line went dead. That was about the same time that a neighbor girl said she heard shots coming from the vicinity of the Wolf farm. Investigators found that the phone line coming into the Wolf farm home had been cut. Also, it is unlikely that the man would have entered the Wolf farm from the north (where he could have been seen by neighbors plowing near there), and more likely that he would have followed the ravines south from his place and arrived by coming up over the hills to the east of the Wolf farm.
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