1872
The Wisconsin Central Railroad was building its line through the woods towards Lake Superior and finished the 1872 construction season with the rails completed at Colby.
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FILE 192 / 8 October 2020 / 168 MIN / full
It's in central Wisconsin ... in two different counties, Clark and Marathon counties. about 0:05:45
The Wisconsin Central Railroad was building its line through the woods towards Lake Superior and finished the 1872 construction season with the rails completed at Colby.
about 0:06:56The place was first called Section 53.
about 0:07:40The station was renamed in honour of Charles L. Colby, a partner in the construction company and son of railroad financier Gardner L. Colby.
about 0:08:20Colby is the birthplace of Colby cheese, and a historical marker in downtown Colby commemorates its development by Joseph Steinwand in 1874.
about 0:08:58The Wisconsin Central Railroad was building its line through the woods towards Lake Superior and finished the 1872 construction season with the rails completed at Colby.
about 0:06:56The place was first called Section 53.
about 0:07:40The station was renamed in honour of Charles L. Colby, a partner in the construction company and son of railroad financier Gardner L. Colby.
about 0:08:20Colby is the birthplace of Colby cheese, and a historical marker in downtown Colby commemorates its development by Joseph Steinwand in 1874.
about 0:08:58Ambrose Steinwand passed his cheese-making art to his son Joseph F. Steinwand, who perfected a washed curd process that gave Colby its mild flavour.
about 0:09:12It takes slightly more than a gallon of milk to produce a pound of Colby cheese.
about 0:09:31An 1898 issue of the Colby Phonograph noted that a merchant in Phillips sold the genuine Steinwand Colby cheese.
about 0:10:22Colby cheese is no longer made in the town of Colby; a factory east of town cuts and packages it, and the former cheese factory is now a dilapidated building.
about 0:14:3758.2%
Biggest faith: Catholic, 27.6%
about 0:20:58Property crime
▼ about 25% below
Violent crime
▼ less than half
Two-bedroom, one-bath, 1,160 square foot house
about 0:24:43Four-bedroom, two-bath, 1,680 square foot house
about 0:25:15Four-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath, 1,260 square foot house on 160 acres
about 0:25:43"667"
Comparison: "in 1900". No direction stated.
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"2,000"
Comparison: "currently". No direction stated.
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"30%"
Comparison: "since 1990". No direction stated.
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"36 and a half"
Comparison: "about a year younger than normal". Direction: below.
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"76% white"
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"0.0% black"
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"0.7% Asian"
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"21.4% Hispanic"
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"58.2%"
Comparison: "a little more than normal". Direction: above.
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"27.6%"
Comparison: "beat the Lutherans by over ten percent". Direction: above.
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"16%"
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"0.0%"
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"0.0%"
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"about normal"
Comparison: "normal". Direction: about the same.
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"$45,000"
Comparison: "normally almost $58,000". No direction stated.
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"more than 30%"
Direction: above.
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"33%"
Comparison: "more than three times the average". Direction: above.
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"77 out of 100"
Comparison: "100 is regular". Direction: below.
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"47"
Comparison: "100 is regular". Direction: below.
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"$109,500"
Comparison: "extremely low". Direction: below.
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"about 50%"
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"about $700"
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"$87,900"
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"$127,900"
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"$650,000"
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"about 25% below"
Comparison: "national average". Direction: below.
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"less than half"
Comparison: "national average". Direction: below.
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2.5 / 5 · average of 2
“A small, quaint, rural-feeling town where everyone knows everybody, surrounded by farmland but with good amenities four minutes down the road; a wonderful place to raise children although the schools are not good and job opportunities are limited.”about 0:15:52
“After three years in Colby the reviewer says the water tastes disgusting, is beyond hard, makes skin ashy and dry and has damaged their hair; 118 people agreed and 156 disagreed.”about 0:16:59
Robert Pogue was a butcher by trade, a meat cutter at Century Foods in Abbotsford, Wisconsin, and a man who liked loud music, hot rod racing and his two pit bulls.
She was twenty, already divorced with a two-year-old daughter, and he was sixteen.
The marriage was chaotic. Later that year she had another affair with Joe Trejo, a co-worker at a Denny's in Tyler. No one called the police.
He went back later, cut the phone line, kicked in the door and confronted Robert with a shotgun. The two men wrestled over it and a shot went through the roof, but again nobody called the police.
They stayed with Robert's family for a short time and then rented a one-bedroom flat at 3304 and a half Division Street. Robert worked in the meat department at Century Foods in Abbotsford.
He asked a Nacogdoches police detective, Clifford Lightfoot, for advice about getting his children back; Lightfoot told him to hire a lawyer and not to go to Wisconsin. He described cutting the torso in two and the rest into six-to-eight-inch pieces, mutilating the face and removing the teeth so Robert could not be identified. He kept repeating, in McNeely's recollection, "no body, no crime". He said he would use a machete. McNeely thought he was letting off steam.
The medical examiner's evidence pointed instead to a knife wound to the abdomen. Instead they went ahead with the plan.
He cut off the head and held it up by the ponytail, opened the chest and pulled out the heart with his bare hand, remarking that he had not known a human heart was so small. He cut off Robert's testicles and slashed his buttocks. He said the only moment he was frightened was when he was sawing through bone and worried that the noise would make someone complain. Afterwards he said the knives were so blunt you could not cut butter with them. She said she stayed in the car as lookout.
She told Robert's sister that he had walked out after a row. She told Robert's mother, Shirley, that he was a drug addict who had run off with drug friends. The mattress was gone, she said, because one of the pit bulls had torn it up.
Robert's mother reported him missing to the Colby police on 4 June 1990. On 7 June Wisconsin detectives flew to Texas and, with the Nacogdoches police, located the s. On 8 June Robert's stepfather, Glen Maine, found the discarded mattress beside a road and recognised the pattern. In the car police found the stock and part of the barrel of a shotgun, a bow saw with flesh, blood and hair in the blade, and a work glove containing Robert's ponytail with a piece of scalp attached.
On 15 September 1990 he agreed to help investigators find the body. He led them to a site about twelve miles south-west of Babcock along Highway 173. On the second day they found the first burial site along a logging road about two hundred yards from the highway, near cranberry bogs; a second site was three hundred feet away, and a third and fourth were found over the next two days. Robert's head, hands, heart, lungs and testicles were never recovered. A tattoo of Ann on one arm identified him.
He blamed Robert for tearing his family apart and said dismembering the body was the only way to get it out of the flat. He is in Stanley Correctional Institution.
May 30, 1990 / his apartment at 3304 and a half Division Street, Colby, Wisconsin
As told in the episode, on 8 October 2020.
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