On This Date in Minnesota History: January 13

January 13, 1984 – A jury found Marjorie Congdon Caldwell Hagen guilty of arson and insurance fraud in Hennepin County District Court on this date. The jury “accepted the prosecution’s contention that she set fire to [her former] home with gasoline in a scheme to collect $19,000 in cash from an insurance company and to pay off a $36,000 debt on the house. She had already sold the house, but remained a beneficiary of the new owner’s insurance policy.”

News-Tribune & Herald; “Marjorie Hagen guilty of arson”; Duluth, Minn.; January 14, 1984; pp. 1A & 3A.

Marjorie Congdon Caldwell Hagen

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