Dakota Spotlight Podcast

Curiosity. What is it really? Some say it is ‘an appetite for knowledge, information, and understanding.’ Others say, Curiosity killed the cat.’ NASA sent a Rover named Curiosity all the way to Mars. It’s been exploring that planet since 2012, gathering data and collecting images, just to feed our thirst for knowledge and understanding.    About four years ago I came across a short newspaper article, and pretty much from the get go, my curiosity could not be contained.   In 1976, a banker and his wife were kidnapped and murdered in the small, quiet town of Zeeland, North Dakota, population 300. They were killed by young men with local ties. One of them went to the same church as the victims.  They were caught, convicted and given life sentences and there has never been any doubt about their guilt. So why my curiosity?   Perhaps because of the missing pieces. A lot of the pieces were in place; the who, where, when and how, although I would discover that even some of those were inaccurate and needed to be repla