On This Date in Minnesota History: November 18

November 18, 1983 – Larry Race was sentenced to life imprisonment for the death of his wife Debbie. The State had accused him of staging a boating accident on Lake Superior to kill his wife. Her body was found May 12, 1982, on a Duluth shoreline; she had died of hypothermia in the 35-degree water after the inflatable rescue raft she was on sunk. The prosecution contended Race punctured holes in the raft to kill his wife for $108,000 in insurance and to get out of his 14-year marriage.

Race was released from prison in 2005. His children still believe him to be not guilty.

Duluth News-Tribune & Herald; “Race convicted of murder”; November 18, 1983, p. 1.
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Larry Rice

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