US EditionDaughter framed pioneer father for murder. Then he was hanged three times
- Catherine Van Horn killed her mother, Mary Egan, in 1880 and blamed the murder on her stepfather, Thomas Egan, who was hanged three times after being found guilty by a jury in Dakota Territory.
- Catherine Van Horn argued with her mother, beat her with a picket pin, and strangled her with a rope before hiding the body in a root cellar.
- John Egan, a descendant of Thomas Egan, discovered a letter that served as Catherine's confession, stating that his great-grandfather was innocent.
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Daughter framed pioneer father for murder. Then he was hanged three times
SIOUX FALLS, SD — For nearly half a century, Catherine Van Horn kept a secret that she divulged only on her death bed. In 1880, she killed her mother, Mary Egan, and blamed the deed on her stepfather, Thomas Egan, who was hanged three times until he was dead after a Dakota Territory jury found him guilty. She got into an argument with her mother around Sept. 14, 1880, beat her with a picket pin — a hardwood stake used to tether a horse — and str…
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