Dark La Crosse Stories

La Crosse Tribune and La Crosse Public Library
  • 5.0 (9)
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Podcast looks at the seedier side of La Crosse, WI, history.  To see video versions of these episodes featuring historic photos and headlines >> http://bit.ly/DarkLaxPlaylist

  1. 12/18/2024

    Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 67: Eye for an Eye

    The life and times of Walter Goetzinger, one of the most extraordinary musicians in La Crosse history, continues with a double homicide in Milwaukee involving his son and family friends from La Crosse.

    23 min
  2. Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 66: The Rivoli's Blind Organist

    12/10/2024

    Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 66: The Rivoli's Blind Organist

    The life and times of Walter Goetzinger, one of the most extraordinary musicians in La Crosse history, including a theater fire, a messy divorce, and his role in the erection of the Rivoli Theatre.

    18 min

  3. 10/15/2024

    Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 65: Cornering a Killer

    A young farmer kills three brothers near Austin, Minnesota and goes on the run for 12 days with George Brooks' bloodhounds and a La Crosse Tribune reporter hot on his trail.

    14 min

  4. 10/01/2024

    Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 64: The Funeral Home Fight

    What happens when an unsavory business opens in a historic home in the heart of an upper-class residential district?

    19 min
  5. Dark La Crosse Stories Epsidode 63: St. Mary's Boarding School

    09/17/2024

    Dark La Crosse Stories Epsidode 63: St. Mary's Boarding School

    In 1883, the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in La Crosse opened the St. Mary's Indian School, a boarding school that was on the reservation of the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians with the mission to convert Ojibwe children to Catholicism, a history the FSPA now must reconcile with the survivors and descendants of St. Mary's.

    31 min
  6. Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 62: Fall From Grace

    09/03/2024

    Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 62: Fall From Grace

    At the turn of the 20th century, disgraced Reverend Martin Hanson left a North La Crosse congregation, his family, and the family pet wondering what happened to the man they thought they knew.

    16 min

  7. 08/20/2024

    Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 61: The Stomach in the Car

    In October 1927, the La Crosse County Coroner drove to Madison with a macabre cargo - a human stomach, destined for the state toxicologist’s office, exhumed from Oak Grove Cemetery just days after its burial.

    12 min
  8. Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 60: 1875 Circus Storm

    08/06/2024

    Dark La Crosse Stories Episode 60: 1875 Circus Storm

    An evening performance of Howe's Great London Circus descended into chaos as a raging summer storm moved through La Crosse in 1875.

    14 min
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Podcast looks at the seedier side of La Crosse, WI, history.  To see video versions of these episodes featuring historic photos and headlines >> http://bit.ly/DarkLaxPlaylist

Information

  • Creator
    La Crosse Tribune and La Crosse Public Library
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2024
  • Episodes
    67
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2024 La Crosse Tribune & La Crosse Public Library 951025
  • Show Website
    Dark La Crosse Stories