No one was particularly surprised when they learned Earl Throst was the killer. He was a strange, queer-looking little man with long, unkempt hair. Most people described him as not too bright or mentally defective.
One of Inga’s friends laughed when she heard Throst say they were
engaged. She told reporters the relationship was all in Throst’s head. Inga
“wouldn’t have had anything to do with a man like him.”
Inga Magnusson and Earl Throst went to school together as kids and
were passing acquaintances at best afterward. She had him physically removed
from the schoolhouse two weeks before because of his noisy, obnoxious
behavior. It was apparent Inga wanted nothing to do with him.
Like all old-time papers, the Des Moines Register told
readers, Inga “was saved from a worse fate by the sacrifice of her life.”
Better dead than molested.
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