Microsoft word - stuart-gavle-article.docx
Murder and Restoration in 1950s Rural Minnesota: State v. Viola Gavle On Thursday morning, April 6, 1950, as Oscar Rasmussen sat with his friends Albert Knutson and Truman Gavle in a bar in Emmons, Minnesota – a tiny town a few miles south of Albert Lea, near the Iowa border – he wasn’t planning to die in the next hour. Instead, he and his two friends had a few beers and then decided