A Good Girl’s Journey Brutally Interrupted
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Episode 270 examines a case that baffled police then, and still today, there is some doubt cast on the verdict. But at the time, when the body of an innocent young farm girl turns up brutally raped and murdered in a Fargo, North Dakota, hotel room, fingers turn toward the night clerk, admittedly the town Lothario.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.0 | The Great Day dawn |
| 0:11.0 | Sunday, June 5th, 1921, |
| 0:15.0 | and pretty 18-year-old Marie Wick could hardly contain her delight. For the first time in her life, she was going out of the county and out of the state on a visit. |
| 0:27.6 | On this day, quite on her own, she would leave her farm home in Grigla in northwest Minnesota |
| 0:34.6 | and go to stay with relatives in Pettybone, North Dakota. |
| 0:38.3 | She would travel by train to Fargo, North Dakota, and remain there overnight, in a hotel. |
| 0:45.3 | Quiet-mannered, popular, completely unsophisticated, Marie had experienced almost nothing of what might be called the outside world. |
| 0:55.4 | She had never been farther away from home than Warren, about 50 miles to the west in Marshall County, |
| 1:01.6 | where she had attended North Star College. In all her life, incredible as it might seem to others of her age, |
| 1:09.3 | she had never seen a street car except in the movies. |
| 1:13.6 | Marie took off on her exciting journey that Sabbath afternoon. |
| 1:17.6 | "'Take care of yourself, dear,' said her mother. |
| 1:21.1 | "'Marie kissed her, laughing. Don't you worry about me,' she said. |
| 1:25.7 | "'I won't, but don't talk to strangers. |
| 1:29.1 | Never fear, the daughter said. |
| 1:32.3 | At Moorhead, Minnesota, across the Red River from Fargo, |
| 1:35.9 | a childhood friend Arnold Rasmussen boarded the train that evening |
| 1:40.6 | knowing she would be on it and rode across the river with her. He accompanied her to a |
| 1:46.5 | hotel where she registered and was assigned room 30 on the second floor. Young Rasmussen, who was |
| 1:54.0 | working in Moorhead at the time, remained in the lobby while she followed the night clerk upstairs. |
| 2:06.9 | She soon rejoined him and they went out for ice cream sodas in a store that had an electric piano. |
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