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After 96 years, brazen robbery turned murder remains unsolved

At 1:30 a.m. on June 29, 1930, Leif Erickson was shot during a robbery on North Broadway, Fargo, by a hooded man witnessed by Vera Helgerson.
Fargo Police Department said the attack involved a robbery and threats, with the robber demanding Erickson's billfold, cash, and company check number 3642 worth $214.60.
Fargo police arrested and questioned a dozen suspects, but forensic leads like fingerprints, a lodged bullet, and a foreign-made gun proved inconclusive, and they were misled by Fred Thompson.
About 1,500 people attended Leif Erickson’s July 3, 1930 funeral at Immanuel Lutheran Church, while the Cass County Commission and Gov. George Shafer raised the bounty to $1,000.
To this day the murder remains officially unsolved, with half-obscured clues turning up but ending in blanks, and the Moorhead Daily News warned it could become a permanent unsolved case.

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After 96 years, brazen robbery turned murder remains unsolved

WHEATON, Minn. — Dust blew across the sunburned prairie as Vera Helgerson and her mother found a place to park amidst dozens of automobiles and horse-drawn wagons at Immanuel Lutheran Church on July 3, 1930. On that day in the midst of intense drought, more than the entire population of Wheaton — about 1,500 people — showed up to pay their last respects to a local "promising young son,” Leif Erickson. Helgerson was just one of the thousands, but…

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