The Vault: True Crime from the Upper Midwest

22/03/2025

Part 2 in The Vault podcast series, "Joli Truelson: Connecting the Dots" is out now. You can find it wherever you listen to podcasts.

Podcast Episode · The Vault · 03/21/2025 · 22m

22/03/2025

In the 1990s, this basketball team tried to find a foothold in a busy Fargo-Moorhead market. It's seven-year run had plenty of twist and turns.

20/03/2025

It was the morning of March 6, 1934, another busy Tuesday in South Dakota’s most populous city. But the events that unfolded over the next several minutes remain a part of Sioux Falls history.

Current occupants of former Security National Bank and Trust in South Dakota reflect on notorious crime

19/03/2025

Joli Truelson was picked up on the evening of July 3, 1972 in Uptown Minneapolis by a man driving a newer model, gold-colored, two-door vehicle.

With the help of the victim's family, this series digs deep into the investigation related to the 1972 slaying of 16-year-old Joli Truelson, with the goal of identifying her killer.

18/03/2025

Jerry Hal Saliterman died March 16, after agreeing to plead guilty.

17/03/2025

New Vault podcast series: With the help of the victim's family, this series digs deep into the investigation related to the 1972 Minneapolis slaying of 16-year-old Joli Truelson, with the goal of identifying her killer.

With the help of the victim's family, this series digs deep into the investigation related to the 1972 slaying of 16-year-old Joli Truelson, with the goal of identifying her killer.

15/03/2025

David Hedberg has been the president of Mr. Basketball in Minnesota since late 2020 after joining the committee in 2014. He leads a nine-person group, made up of former players, coaches, officials and sportswriters that votes on the yearly award.

The award has been shared multiple times in Minnesota and the Dakotas

14/03/2025

The lake was named "Mni Wakan," which is Sacred Water in the Dakota language, because of the Unktehi (Water Spirits) said to be found in all bodies of water, according to Louis Garcia

Mni Wakan was said to be mistranslated by white settlers, who recorded it as "Devils Lake," though Spirit Lake was the more accurate translation.

12/03/2025

Miller, 84, was arrested Nov. 7, 2024, at an Owatonna assisted living facility for the murder of 25-year-old Mary Schlais. At the time of his arrest, Miller confessed to picking up Schlais near her Uptown Minneapolis apartment before stabbing her 15 times when she refused his sexual advances.

Joli Truelson was killed in 1972 after hitching a ride with a man in a gold-colored vehicle. Two years later, Mary Schlais was picked up by a similar car, just miles from where Truelson was last seen.

11/03/2025

Andrew Hawes and Elizabeth Hawes were convicted in 2010 and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Edwin Hawes. The case is featured on "Killer Siblings," available to stream on Hulu.

07/03/2025

The 46-day trial of Harry Hayward in 1895 riveted the nation with its shocking surprises, even inspiring a 'murder ballad'

06/03/2025

First gathering drew 9,000 fans to St. Paul Auditorium in 1945

05/03/2025

What compelled Marie Downing to leave her life at Windsor Castle for the windswept prairie?

04/03/2025

The group of about 100 left a trail of deception and chaos across the country in the first half of the 20th century.

01/03/2025

A Minnesota farm wife fell in love with a farm hand, and it all went downhill from there in 1949.

28/02/2025

Everyone believed Jacob Bentz's story at first. But his actions after the murder spurred an investigation that broke the case wide open.

27/02/2025

From 1972 to 1991, Cardinal Muench Seminary in Fargo fielded a basketball team despite fluctuating enrollment, inconsistent success

26/02/2025

The case was suspended in 1980 due to the main suspect taking their own life before evidence could be presented to a grand jury.