In The Poor Dutch Girl's Shanty
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Although there is a verdict and a lot of drama in Episode 265, many details of this case remain oblique. Only two people know what happened in that shack on the windswept Colorado prairie, and they aren’t talking, but there are many subtle clues to pique your imagination.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.0 | Miss Goretta Hoss' body was found in bed in her lonely little cabin Sunday by her sister, Mrs. Van Wyke, and E. Ball, a ranchman. |
| 0:21.4 | The most important and significant part of Ball's statement is as follows. |
| 0:26.1 | Quote, I have known Van Wyck for over two years and occupy one of his farms. |
| 0:31.3 | I live a mile and a half from the shanty where Miss Host was killed. |
| 0:36.6 | Mrs. Van Weik came to our place Saturday afternoon and asked if |
| 0:40.6 | her sister was here. Mrs. Van Wike then came into the house and said she had been to the shanty but found it |
| 0:47.9 | locked and asked me to go with her to help find Miss Hoss. My wife and I went with Mrs. Van Weik to the shanty. |
| 0:57.0 | I was the first to go into the place and saw Miss Haast lying in bed almost covered up with a quilt. |
| 1:04.0 | I pulled the cover down and saw the girl was dead. |
| 1:08.0 | The cloth about her head was covered with blood. I told Mrs. Van Wyck her sister was dead |
| 1:14.3 | that she had either been shot or hit in the head. She told me to look for the gun. She said |
| 1:20.9 | Miss Haast had been given a gun by Van Weik. Mrs. Van Weik said her husband had refused to give Miss Haast any cartridges and was upbraided |
| 1:30.4 | by the young woman for ignoring his sister-in-law. Mrs. Van Wyke said there surely must be a note |
| 1:36.8 | somewhere. There was a pen and ink bottle on the table. Then Mrs. Van Weik suggested that I look in a baking powder can that also stood on the table, |
| 1:48.1 | and in it I found a note written in Dutch. Mrs. Van Weik spoke about the can first, and I did not |
| 1:55.7 | think anything about it until she mentioned it. Mrs. Van Weik all the time refused to come into the room but stood in the |
| 2:03.7 | doorway. I read the note to her three times. Then she asked me to take her home. Mrs. Van Wyck then asked me |
| 2:12.3 | to call for a doctor at Vernon. She said she did not want the body moved and asked me to make a coffin in which |
| 2:18.8 | to bury her sister. I decided to call Coroner Nash by telephone and report to him. I do not think |
| 2:27.8 | Van Weike was in love with Miss Haust. I once heard him refer to her as a brute. Van Wyck had been making arrangements to buy some sheep |
| 2:37.0 | and raise them on shares, unquote. |
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