Roger Essem

Death by Force

On the evening of November 17, 1973, a 17-year-old Caucasian male named Roger Essem, accompanied by his 13-year-old girlfriend and three other teenage friends, drove to Gitchie Manitou State Preserve, a secluded area in Lyon County, Iowa, just across the border from their hometown of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The group, which included Stewart Baade, 18, his brother Dana Baade, 14, and Michael Hadrath, 15, gathered around a campfire to spend the evening together, playing guitar and enjoying each ...Read More

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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