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  • 3 weeks ago | inforum.com | C.S. Hagen

    FARGO, ND — Before the 1997 shotgun killing of Annemarie Camp, Michael Gianakos walked up to his mother and posed a question. “Why can’t you be nicer to Jamie?” mother Alice Gianakos said her son asked. She didn’t like her son’s soon-to-be wife, Jamie Dennis-Gianakos. She thought she was trouble. Michael had always been the good boy who couldn’t take the pressure of lying. As a child, he was bullied in school. His family privately called him “Porky” while he was growing up.

  • 3 weeks ago | inforum.com | C.S. Hagen

    CHRISTINE, ND — On Memorial Day 2025, Kathleen Forness and Lisa Camp walked the rows of headstones at Richland Lutheran Church Cemetery. They knew exactly where they were going. They stopped at a small, granite headpiece. The grave was well taken care of, decorated with flowers and guarded by three ceramic angels. “Here she is.

  • 3 weeks ago | postbulletin.com | C.S. Hagen

    HOLY CROSS TOWNSHIP, Minn. — Jamie Lynn Dennis-Gianakos slowed the Pontiac as she entered the intersection of County Road 60 and Highway 75 in Clay County, Minnesota. The night sky was dark as Red River Valley earth, but a sign for a rural Haunted Farm pointed the way. Another mile and she’d reach the lone, tumbledown farmstead, the last place she saw Annemarie Camp on May 1, 1997, a babysitter to her two daughters and maid of honor at her Valentine’s Day wedding to Michael Gianakos.

  • 3 weeks ago | inforum.com | C.S. Hagen

    HOLY CROSS TOWNSHIP, Minn. — Jamie Lynn Dennis-Gianakos slowed the Pontiac as she entered the intersection of County Road 60 and Highway 75 in Clay County, Minnesota. The night sky was dark as Red River Valley earth, but a sign for a rural Haunted Farm pointed the way. Another mile and she’d reach the lone, tumbledown farmstead, the last place she saw Annemarie Camp on May 1, 1997, a babysitter to her two daughters and maid of honor at her Valentine’s Day wedding to Michael Gianakos.

  • 4 weeks ago | inforum.com | C.S. Hagen

    While many in North Dakota and Minnesota were just hearing about methamphetamine in 1999, Michael Gamboa began a drug ring that covered the state of North Dakota, and parts of Minnesota, pushing 400 pounds or about $18 million worth into people’s lungs and bloodstreams. He likened his rise from the underworld to the life of being a king, claiming ownership of Grand Forks, North Dakota, and he ruled his dealers with the gun, sometimes automatic rifles, while paying them mostly with meth.

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C.S. Hagen
C.S. Hagen @HagenChrisS
21 Oct 24

On one side of the 640-acre contest zone in 1921, 37 gas-powered metallic tractors... and on the other side, 12 hay-powered draft horse teams, each side battling for farming supremacy. https://t.co/EOj4GlNEfe

C.S. Hagen
C.S. Hagen @HagenChrisS
21 Oct 24

If a story of affluence and starvation, Japanese-run concentration camps and war and civil war interests you, then don't pass this story up. https://t.co/fkSDnJrMeb

C.S. Hagen
C.S. Hagen @HagenChrisS
21 Oct 24

The final story in a three-part series based on research tracking Christian extremist views over the past century: https://t.co/KhUqSxXQyA