• Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 67: Eye for an Eye
    Dec 18 2024

    The life and times of Walter Goetzinger, one of the most extraordinary musicians in La Crosse history, continues with a double homicide in Milwaukee involving his son and family friends from La Crosse.

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    23 mins
  • Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 66: The Rivoli's Blind Organist
    Dec 10 2024

    The life and times of Walter Goetzinger, one of the most extraordinary musicians in La Crosse history, including a theater fire, a messy divorce, and his role in the erection of the Rivoli Theatre.

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    18 mins
  • Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 65: Cornering a Killer
    Oct 15 2024

    A young farmer kills three brothers near Austin, Minnesota and goes on the run for 12 days with George Brooks' bloodhounds and a La Crosse Tribune reporter hot on his trail.

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    14 mins
  • Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 64: The Funeral Home Fight
    Oct 1 2024

    What happens when an unsavory business opens in a historic home in the heart of an upper-class residential district?

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    19 mins
  • Dark La Crosse Stories Epsidode 63: St. Mary's Boarding School
    Sep 17 2024

    In 1883, the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in La Crosse opened the St. Mary's Indian School, a boarding school that was on the reservation of the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians with the mission to convert Ojibwe children to Catholicism, a history the FSPA now must reconcile with the survivors and descendants of St. Mary's.

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    31 mins
  • Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 62: Fall From Grace
    Sep 3 2024

    At the turn of the 20th century, disgraced Reverend Martin Hanson left a North La Crosse congregation, his family, and the family pet wondering what happened to the man they thought they knew.

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    16 mins
  • Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 61: The Stomach in the Car
    Aug 20 2024

    In October 1927, the La Crosse County Coroner drove to Madison with a macabre cargo - a human stomach, destined for the state toxicologist’s office, exhumed from Oak Grove Cemetery just days after its burial.

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    12 mins
  • Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 60: 1875 Circus Storm
    Aug 6 2024

    An evening performance of Howe's Great London Circus descended into chaos as a raging summer storm moved through La Crosse in 1875.

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    14 mins