In the quiet, rural landscape of La Porte County, Indiana, a horrific chapter of American criminal history was written, a story in which a young boy named Philip Gunness became an innocent and tragic figure. Philip, a male of about four or five years of age, met his untimely end on the night of April 28, 1908, when a ferocious fire swept through his family's farmhouse. The Norwegian-American boy's life was cut short alongside his older half-sisters, Myrtle and Lucy Sorenson, who were nine and el
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