1810
Joseph Morin was born in Montreal in 1810.
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FILE 188 / 10 September 2020 / 169 MIN / full
today we're in Corkran, Minnesota, which is in southeastern Minnesota ... a suburb of Minneapolis ... about 30 minutes to downtown Minneapolis ... this is in Hennepin County about 0:04:36
Joseph Morin was born in Montreal in 1810.
about 0:06:06Morin went to Michigan in 1840, worked in the shipyards on Lake Superior and married in 1844.
about 0:06:15In 1845 Morin and his wife left Minnesota in a birch bark canoe and followed the Black River for 15 days.
about 0:06:15They reached the St. Croix River in a day, followed it to the Mississippi and went to St. Paul, where they stayed 11 years.
about 0:07:30Joseph Morin was born in Montreal in 1810.
about 0:06:06Morin went to Michigan in 1840, worked in the shipyards on Lake Superior and married in 1844.
about 0:06:15In 1845 Morin and his wife left Minnesota in a birch bark canoe and followed the Black River for 15 days.
about 0:06:15They reached the St. Croix River in a day, followed it to the Mississippi and went to St. Paul, where they stayed 11 years.
about 0:07:30They moved to Corcoran in 1856, built a home and had eleven children.
about 0:07:36The town was settled in 1855 and organized in 1858.
about 0:08:51The city was named after Patrick B. Corkern, its first school teacher, merchant and postmaster.
about 0:09:00The first school was a 12 by 16 log house built in the winter of 1857 by Corkern, and his first class had 16 children.
about 0:10:11Corkern opened a general store in a log house on the west side of town; he was originally from Ireland and moved to the US in 1847.
about 0:10:58The town was officially incorporated in 1948.
about 0:11:26Niche.com ranked Corcoran number 4,330 in its list of best places to raise a family.
about 0:11:3655%
Biggest faith: Catholic residents, 19%
about 0:17:45White 89% · Black 0.2% · Asian 4.3% · Hispanic 5.6%
Ethnicity can overlap race.Property crime
▼ about one third of the national average
Violent crime
▼ under one third the average
Four-bedroom two-bath house, 2014 square feet
about 0:21:30Four-bedroom two-bath house, 3,130 square feet
about 0:21:47Four-bedroom six-bath house, 4,840 square feet
about 0:22:20"about one third of the national average"
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"under one third the average"
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"5,671"
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"up nine percent"
Comparison: "1990s". Direction: above.
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"43 and a half years old"
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"68%"
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"89%"
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"0.2%"
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"4.3%"
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"5.6%"
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"36%"
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"15%"
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"8%"
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"7%"
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"63%"
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"28%"
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"almost nine percent"
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"3.2%"
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"$102,708"
Comparison: "about $57,000 in the rest of the country". No direction stated.
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"double the normal amount"
Comparison: "normal". Direction: above.
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"55%"
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"19%"
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"14%"
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"1.5%"
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"118"
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"152"
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"$352,600"
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"$1,660"
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"$309,900"
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"$475,000"
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"$830,000"
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4.0 / 5 · average of 3
“I really like Corcoran. It's small compared to the other cities around it, but the people are nice here.”about 0:12:09
“It's a great place to live, but since there isn't much to do that is super close, you have to find things to do yourself, which isn't necessarily bad.”about 0:12:41
“I love the small town feeling Corcoran has. There is no urgent need to develop because everything you could ask for is next door in Maple Grove; it has a hobby beekeeping association and a summer kids soccer program.”about 0:13:08
He lived with his parents in north Minneapolis, next door to the Stebbins family, and met their daughter Carol when he was twenty-two and she was fifteen. Her parents were unhappy about the age gap, but Carol insisted she was in love, and after two years they signed the papers; the couple married on Christmas Eve 1970, when Carol was seventeen. They had two daughters, the first in 1971 and the second in 1977, and apart from one two-day separation around 1978, during which Carol took the elder child and left, the marriage seemed ordinary. Carol worked long hours, often overtime, and still ran the home.
She had married young, divorced around 1950 and remarried the following year. He was her only son among nine children, and he treated her as a queen.
That night, according to the statement he later gave, Carol refused sex, as she had the night before, and told him to go downstairs and fuck his fat mama. He dragged Carol to the bathtub, cut off her hair with scissors and burned it in the wood stove, then dismembered her with a ten-inch serrated scuba knife and a twelve-inch knife, cutting the body in half, taking off her legs below the knees and removing her head. He packed the remains into a gunny sack and a duffel bag with rocks as weights, drove them to Weaver Lake between 3.30 and 4 a.m., returned home, dozed, woke at 6.30 a.m., ate two pieces of toast and took the bags by boat to submerge them in the lake. He told his three-year-old daughter that her mother had a big owie and would be at the doctor for a long time.
Her rings were in her purse at home, although her fingers had been so swollen the day before that she could not remove them, and her family said she would never leave without her children. Co-workers told police he had joked about killing Carol, once describing drowning her in a snowmobile accident on thin ice to Renee Halsworth, and after the disappearance he offered her $5,000 not to repeat it. Leona Olson and Steve Brant said the threats were jokes.
Carol's family maintained a Facebook page called We Speak for Carol.
August 10-11, 1980 / the Hoffman home, Corcoran, Minnesota
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