On This Date in Minnesota History: November 29

November 29, 1995 – Almost 20 years after shooting Lake City, Minn., Mayor Wilmer Strickland and his wife Verona to death in their home, former next-door neighbor John Claypool’s guilty conscious caused him to confess that he had murdered them when he was 14-years-old because he wanted to see what it was like to kill. “Under state guidelines, Claypool [would] serve about 10 years in prison.”

Sun-Journal; “Neighbor confesses to mayor’s murder 20 years ago”; Lewiston, Maine; November 30, 1995; p. 8A.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5183/5889577402_57df0b5eaf_d.jpg