![]() Meanwhile a young man, also recently jilted, shoots his ex-fiance and then himself. ![]() ![]() He later vanishes.Ī teenage girl, jilted at the altar by her fiance, goes mad with grief, hanging herself in the local asylum. ![]() A fifteen-year-old Polish girl burns down her employer’s barn-and his house-because she wanted some “excitement.”Ī young German man, having only moved to Black River Falls a month prior, attempts suicide by train, lying down on the tracks and refusing to move. If ever a place was cursed, it was Black River Falls, and Wisconsin Death Trip remains one of the bleakest, most devastating accounts of rural American life ever published.Ī sixty-year-old woman, afraid that the rash on her back would kill her, steps into her backyard, douses herself with gasoline and self-immolates.Ī young mother takes her three children out for a day at the beach, and then drowns them, one by one, while the others watch. ![]() In 1973, Michael Lesy told the terrible true tale of Black River Falls in Wisconsin Death Trip, a book that juxtaposed stark images shot by photographer Charles Van Schaick, who documented the town’s downward spiral in a series of jarring portraits, with matter-of-fact newspaper reports of all the murder, mayhem, devil-worship, suicide, hauntings and general bedlam that infected the town like a virus. ![]()
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