Darn Tootin! The movie “Fargo” isn’t a true story, but a 1963 St. Paul murder shares similarities

The Coen Brothers insisted “Fargo” was based on a true story. But which one? A longtime Fargo librarian has spent years trying to track down the real case — and keeps coming up empty. Still, some point to the 1963 murder of Carol Thompson, a St. Paul mother whose husband hired a hitman to kill her for insurance money. The parallels are there: a bumbling husband, a botched crime, a trail of damning evidence. Whether or not it inspired the film, her story remains one of Minnesota’s most gripping true crime cases. C.S. Hagen attempts to untangle the the thread in this piece from InForum.

C.S. Hagen

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