My Name Is Murder

Murder of Timothy Wicks

December 2001 / name withheld here a covered name blue farmhouse, Gardner, North Dakota

Victims

Accused and outcomes

As told in the episode, on 10 October 2025.

Outcome

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Other people

The timeline

1. 1954 Timothy Wicks, the real Wicks, is born.about 0:16:31
2. 1963 name withheld here is born in Milwaukee, the youngest of five siblings.about 0:17:59
3. 1981 Luke Gagnon, the Canadian boy whose identity a covered name later takes, dies aged seven.about 0:24:11
4. 1987 covered name is caught with stolen property and agrees to become a police informant.about 0:18:31
5. 1991 The Marshfield Police Department hires name withheld here to work undercover drug cases. (Marshfield Police Department)about 0:20:54
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8. 1995 A biker gang tracks name withheld here down, so he disappears under the identity of the dead Canadian boy Luke Gagnon.about 0:23:29
9. early 2001 a covered name covered name meets Diana Frug at the West Alice Apartment building, where she manages the flats and he rents office space below. (West Alice Apartment building)about 0:31:47
10. May 2001 name withheld here marries Diana Frug at the Milwaukee County courthouse. (Milwaukee County courthouse)about 0:31:02
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12. August 2001 covered name, Diana and three-year-old Joshua arrive in Gardner, North Dakota, introducing themselves as Timothy and Diana Wicks.about 0:10:10
13. September 2001 name withheld here applies for an accountant's job at a Fargo company and is hired by Jeff Paradon. (a covered name's employer in Fargo)about 0:12:55
14. the next two months covered name gets a North Dakota driver's licence and buys the blue farmhouse in Gardner. (name withheld here farmhouse)about 0:15:22
15. December 2001 The real Timothy Wicks phones a covered name about someone fraudulently using his credit card, and covered name panics. (name withheld here farmhouse)about 0:15:49
16. December 24th, 2001 Timothy Wicks tells his brother-in-law he is going to Canada with a covered name covered name for a jazz drumming job paying $800 a week.about 0:37:13
17. December 25th, 2001 Wicks leaves a note with his landlord giving a phone number where he can be reached and mentioning a band gig in Canada.about 0:37:48
18. December 26th, 2001 Friends watch Tim and name withheld here load drums into Wicks's car outside his apartment and head for Gardner.about 0:38:13
19. December 28th, 2001 Wicks is shot on the kitchen floor of the farmhouse, then suffocated with a plastic bag after he is still found breathing. (a covered name farmhouse)about 0:53:53
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