David Boles: Prairie Voice

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Blood Corn

The Halloween Massacre of Sutter’s Hollow

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David Boles
Oct 31, 2025
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The children of Sutter’s Hollow, Iowa, don’t trick-or-treat anymore. Not since Halloween 1997, when six kids vanished between the Methodist church and the water tower, a distance of three blocks. Not since their bodies were found arranged in the Benson cornfield like points on a pentagram, their Halloween candy scattered across eight acres, each piece o…

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