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Dana Baade

Case from Larchwood, IA dated Nov 17, 1973

Victim Details

Dana Baade

Female

White / Caucasian

Larchwood

IA

1973-11-17

14

Dana

Baade

07/01/2026

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On a cool autumn evening, November 17, 1973, fourteen-year-old Dana Baade, a white male, joined his older brother and their friends for what was meant to be a night of camaraderie around a campfire at Gitchie Manitou State Preserve in Iowa, just across the border from their home in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Dana, a student at Patrick Henry Junior High School, was with his eighteen-year-old brother, Stewart Baade, and their friends, seventeen-year-old Roger Essem, fifteen-year-old Michael Hadrat ...
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  • The Des Moines Register: 50 years ago, 4 teens were murdered at Gitchie Manitou. What happened that November night?
  • 1973 Gitchie Manitou murders - Wikipedia
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