The upscale Highland Park neighborhood in Saint Paul in the late 1940s was a fun place to grow up in. But there was a dark side to the area as well. A trio of gruesome murders of young women happened in a fifteen month period, which shocked the respectable community. The most memorable for the author was the 1948 murder of seventeen-year-old Geraldine Mingo.
My guest, David Butwin, shares childhood stories from his memoir, “A Minnesota Kid: In Search of Heroes and Ghosts”. Information about his book can be found at his website here: https://www.davidbutwin.com/
