True Crime Vault: Divine Intervention
20/20
ABC News
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | To succeed in the future of work, forward thinkers use AI to deliver measurable results. Workday is the AI platform for HR and finance that frees you from the mundane so you can focus on more meaningful work. Workday, moving business forever forward. Welcome back to the 2020 True Crime Vault. |
| 0:39.3 | The Sheriff's Office received a call of a body that had been found in rural Carver County. The murder of Earl O'Lander was a brutal, horrific crime. |
| 0:42.3 | Earl O'Lander was a thriving, independent, 90-year-old farmer. |
| 0:47.3 | Earl spent his entire life reaping corn. |
| 0:51.3 | Clearly they were looking for something. |
| 0:53.3 | Earl was in the living room. His hands were tied behind his back with duck tape. |
| 0:58.0 | The house was an extreme disarray. |
| 1:00.0 | And they left them there to die. |
| 1:03.0 | I think we had close to 90 pieces of evidence. |
| 1:10.9 | There was a freshly baked blueberry pie on the counter that sticks with. |
| 1:20.4 | We assume that it was somebody from the area or somebody that Earl knew that had killed him. |
| 1:25.7 | Earl's closest friends were put under the microscope. |
| 1:29.9 | It's upsetting to you, obviously. |
| 1:31.7 | For someone to say that my husband is the murderer, I mean, come on. |
| 1:36.9 | I said, do you think we're ever going to get this figured out? |
| 1:39.7 | He said, yes, they always leave something behind. |
| 1:45.3 | You felt like you needed a miracle. |
| 1:47.5 | We needed a miracle. |
| 1:48.3 | I absolutely believe in divine intervention. |
| 1:51.9 | It all happened the way that it should have, and that's a lot of stories with a lot of heartache, a lot of triumph, things that make you smile and things that make you cry. |
| 2:18.3 | When I first heard about what happened on this modest farm here in rural Minnesota, I just had to come here and see it for myself. |
| 2:25.3 | What I've discovered is a remarkable story of terror, tragedy, and transcendence. |
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