The Ruthton Bank Murders: Ambush on the Buffalo Ridge
SHOW DESCRIPTION: On September 29, 1983, a phony land inquiry lured two small-town bankers to an abandoned ten-acre farmstead outside Ruthton, Minnesota. Within minutes of their arrival, a high-powered rifle ambush left Buffalo Ridge State Bank president Rudy Blythe and loan officer Toby Thulin dead. As the 1980s Farm Crisis devastated Midwestern agriculture, plunging land values and triggering mass foreclosures, this calculated double murder sent shockwaves across the nation. What local activists framed as a desperate farmer "biting back" against credit foreclosure was actually a…
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