Manitowoc County

Autonomowoc, I believe, right? I think it's Manitowoc.

Manitowoc County.

Manitowoc.

I know there is an Autonomowoc.

Well, that might be a suburb or something, but I think it's Manitowoc County.

Okay.

people involved with making a murderer

But I've been involved in the industry my entire professional career.

I grew up on a sixth generation Wisconsin dairy farm in Manitowoc County.

And that's where my foundation was.

Our family didn't have a lot of labor, and I became part of that labor force and own registered Holsteins to this very day, even though I'm widely involved in the industry.

I had the opportunity to speak at the 70th National 4-H Conference and I talked about 10 learning things, people that came in my life and that were servant leaders.

And one of them was my judging coach, Bill Borgwart.

And I grew up in Manitowoc County, Sunnyside Holsteins were a very well-known herd.

One of their top bulls in the 60s was Sunnyside Standout.

That's not something you hear about every day.

In fact, there are so very few reports of a cryptid with three eyes that I think I can list a majority of them right now, beginning with the Stein Thau monster in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.

In the fall of 1965 at a local abandoned farm where teenagers went to cause mischief, a horrific creature was said to have emerged from the ruins of a burned down farmhouse at exactly midnight.

Young men and women dared each other to leave the safety of their cars and run up to the window to catch a glimpse.

In 2003, again in Milwaukee County, he gets arrested, this time for resisting and obstructing an officer, and he gets 20 more days in jail.

In February of 2005, on his 23rd birthday in Manitowoc County, he is charged with obstruction, and he fails to appear in court, so a bench warrant gets issued.

In that same year, he also gets a disorderly conduct ticket doesn't pay the fine, and so he serves yet another 30 days in jail.

Darrell, pretty aware that the police in Wisconsin and the courts in Wisconsin are catching on to him, he leaves Wisconsin and he heads to Reno, Nevada, looking for a fresh start.

Before the Coons' name became tied to a farmhouse outside Athens, Wisconsin, and before five members of that family would become the center of one of the state's most unsettling murder cases, there was another tragedy.

This one happened decades earlier, in 1905. inside a home in Manitowoc County.

At that time, the Coons family was already living close together, as many families did then, with several generations connected not only by blood, but by work.

dependents and shared walls.

Years later, in addition to those already born, more children would be born into that same family line.

Clarence, Marie, Helen, and Jermaine.

After Mary's murder, the family eventually moved away from Manitowoc County and settled in rural Marathon County near Athens, Wisconsin.

They built a life on farmland, and over time, the Coons family became rooted there.

Actually, I don't know why they talk like that.

They have to talk like the making a murder of Manitowoc County.

Just the implosion against Matt LaFleur, against Jordan Love, against Jonathan Gannon.

Just, it would be delightful.