On this Date in Minnesota history: July 7

July 7, 2011 – St. Louis Park, Minn., teenager Michael Swanson, 18, was sentenced to life in prison for the first-degree murder of Kum & Go convenience store clerk Sheila Myers in Humboldt (Carroll County), Iowa.  Later in the day he pled guilty to “first-degree murder and robbery in the shooting death of Vicky Bowman-Hall, 47, in Algona and was sentenced to a second life sentence to run concurrent with the sentence from Humboldt County.”

http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/mn-teen-will-serve-two-life-sentences-for-iowa-slayings/article_10a63e9a-a8c7-11e0-b292-001cc4c03286.html

Mark Swanson

http://article.wn.com/view/2011/06/21/SWANSON_TRIAL_Testimony_has_begun_in_the_first_murder_trial_/

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