Stolen Bible Leads to Arrest in the Murder of Earl Olander

Housewives of True Crime

Tabitha Kane

True Crime, Comedy, History

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In Carver, Minnesota, 90-year-old farmer Earl Olander was found brutally murdered inside his ransacked farmhouse. Bound with duct tape and beaten, Earl was left to die after his phone line was cut. Despite the chaotic scene, investigators uncovered only three distinct shoeprints as evidence. Months later, a shocking break came when Earl’s Norwegian Bible and savings bonds were discovered in a vacated apartment, linking the crime to a local man. As police unraveled connections between stolen cash, trusted workers, and multiple suspects, a quiet rural robbery exposed betrayal, greed, and a calculated attack on a vulnerable elderly man.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Housewives of True Crime. I'm Tabitha, your True Crime Housewife, and I'm bringing you real crimes, real twists, and searching for real justice every week.
0:14.3	I've got a brand new disco biscuit riding shotgun, sometimes a fan, sometimes a friend, but someone always fabulous. So grab whatever
0:23.4	you're drinking these days, press play, and let's talk crime in the carpool line. Kling, clink.
0:29.2	Talk a crime. Talk a crime with a carpal line. How to buy it's going to church you.
0:34.7	A couple of crime. How to buy to touch you crime. Welcome.
0:45.2	Oh, hello, hello.
0:47.4	Housewives of true crime.
0:50.2	Boom.
0:51.4	Tuesday edition.
0:53.4	Yeah.
0:54.2	Happy Tuesday. It's a Tuesday. It's a Yeah. Happy Tuesday.
0:56.0	It's a Tuesday.
0:57.9	Taco Tuesday.
0:58.7	Are you making tacos tonight?
1:00.6	No.
1:04.0	No.
1:04.8	If I'm having Taco Tuesday, I am going somewhere and having a margarita with my tacos. I'm not making my own
1:14.0	tacos at home. Oh, okay. Are you going to do that? Well, maybe now. Sounds like a good idea.
1:23.9	Maybe I should. You should. Since we're recording early, obviously, we don't record live.
1:30.6	So, I mean, we record live, but you know what I'm saying?
1:33.1	Like, we're not putting it out there the second that we record it.
1:36.9	So now you can go have a Taco Tuesday.
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