In 1896, an argument over a butter churn resulted in the death of Katrina "Katy" Baumli, a thirty-five-year-old wife and mother of three young children. In 1910, poker losses resulted in the murders of Oda Hubbell, his wife Clara, and their two small children, as well as the burning of the family home. What did these two crimes, fourteen years apart, have in common? They shared a common acquaintance with Hezekiah Rasco, a handsome, intelligent, charismatic man from Nodaway County, Missouri. Hezekiah "Hez" Rasco committed his first murder in 1896, at the age of fifteen. The sheer brutality of...
In 1896, an argument over a butter churn resulted in the death of Katrina "Katy" Baumli, a thirty-five-year-old wife and mother of three young childre...
In 1869, the Missouri Valley Railroad was working its way north from Savannah, Missouri toward the Missouri/Iowa state lines north of Hopkins to fulfill their contract with the State of Missouri to connect the two states and provide a shorter route between Kansas City and the markets in Chicago, and eastward. In mid 1869, they entered White Cloud Township in southern Nodaway County and began purchasing right of way for the railroad to cross the private farms along the 102 River. Among the landholders granting right of way was Dr. Perry H. Talbott, a prominent doctor and local politician....
In 1869, the Missouri Valley Railroad was working its way north from Savannah, Missouri toward the Missouri/Iowa state lines north of Hopkins to fulfi...
