1864
The town was platted in 1864.
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FILE 329 / 23 October 2022 / 69 MIN / express
We're going to Eyota, Minnesota, in southeastern Minnesota, damn near Wisconsin, right outside Rochester. about 0:03:20
The town was platted in 1864.
about 0:04:57The name means greatest or most and is derived from a Sioux Indian word.
about 0:05:00The town has had a post office since 1864.
about 0:05:07The earliest settler was Benjamin Bear, who came in 1853 looking for a site with an ever-flowing spring and returned the following year with his family.
about 0:05:12The town was platted in 1864.
about 0:04:57The name means greatest or most and is derived from a Sioux Indian word.
about 0:05:00The town has had a post office since 1864.
about 0:05:07The earliest settler was Benjamin Bear, who came in 1853 looking for a site with an ever-flowing spring and returned the following year with his family.
about 0:05:12The stream that runs from the spring is called Bear Creek.
about 0:05:51The railroad was the big employer over the years.
about 0:05:57The streets were laid out on farmland.
about 0:06:02In September 2022 the last bank in town closed, leaving no physical bank.
about 0:06:07"about 1,892"
Comparison: "less than two thousand". Direction: below.
As told in 2022 about 0:04:27
"down 14%"
Comparison: "since 2020". Direction: below.
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"about $70,000 a year"
Comparison: "above the national average". Direction: above.
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"just above the national average"
Comparison: "national figure of $315,000". Direction: above.
As told in 2022 about 0:04:44
3.5 / 5 · average of 2
“The people are kind and friendly, but there are not many hot spots; the most exciting places are the QuickTrip and the Dollar General.”about 0:06:59
“A very close community where everyone is friendly and willing to help; a safe town where not many bad things happen and there is no need to be scared walking home or to school.”about 0:07:49
Wayne Edward Lang was twenty-two in the autumn of 1989, the second youngest of six children of Geneve and Kenneth Lang, raised on a small farm in the Hinckley and Pine City area of Minnesota. In October 1989 he moved to Rochester, the nearest bigger town to Eyota, and on 24 October he started work as a trainee cook at the Ground Round. A warrant was outstanding for him because he had missed a court appearance in Pine County on 12 October.
The wider circle called itself 'the family'.
On Saturday 28 October 1989 the group went to a Halloween party. At the party he spiked Lang's beer with sleeping pills, amitriptyline, and later pulled the knife on some party crashers. They stopped at a soybean field near Eyota. Lang's body was found at ten that morning about sixty feet from a gravel road, ten miles east of Rochester, with his shirt open and an X carved on his midsection and the knife pushed through the centre into a vertebra. There had been no attempt to conceal the body.
On the drive back he switched on the dome light, showed his bloodied hands and said, 'this is death.' The two then threw their shoes and Lang's shoes into the Zumbro River from a bridge. The Ground Round manager, Pat Daley, told police that Lang had last been seen at the party at about two and that there were rumours his drink had been spiked and a knife brandished. On 30 October an anonymous caller told police about the visit to Dornack, and she told them everything.
The court admitted evidence of his interest in witchcraft and Satanism over the defence's objections, including books seized from the group.
October 29, 1989 / a soybean field near Eyota, Minnesota
As told in the episode, on 23 October 2022.
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Public places are marked on the map.
crime scene
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