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Podcast: Housewives of True Crime
Episode: Stolen Bible Leads to Arrest in the Murder of Earl Olander
Description: In Carver, Minnesota, 90-year-old farmer Earl Olander was found brutally murdered inside his ransacked farmhouse. Bound with duct tape and beaten, Earl was left to die after his phone line was cut. Despite the chaotic scene, investigators uncovered only three distinct shoeprints as evidence. Months later, a shocking break came when Earl’s Norwegian Bible and savings bonds were discovered in a vacated apartment, linking the crime to a local man. As police unraveled connections between stolen cash, trusted workers, and multiple suspects, a quiet rural robbery exposed betrayal, greed, and a calculated attack on a vulnerable elderly man....