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      <image:caption>Louis Balzer. convicted of shooting his wife in the back as she fled from their hotel. Mr. Balzer was sentenced to life in prison.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Johanna Fronert, daughter of murder victim Mary Fronert Balzer and her Joseph Fronert. Johanna left the Mankato area about 1904. (family photo)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Retained by NBC to conduct genealogical research for the television show, “Who Do You Think You Are?”, our research focused the ancestors of model Cindy Crawford and the earlier settlers who migrated to southern Minnesota in the mid-1800s. Following the family from Illinois, Wisconsin, and then to Minnesota during the height of homesteading, the US-Dakota War, and Minnesota statehood. “Who Do You Think You Are?”, a genealogy documentary series, first ran on NBC and was later picked up by The Learning Channel (TLC). Each episode follows the journeys of some of the most well-known names in American Popular culture.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Village Family Services provides comprehensive social service support for children and families in the Fargo, ND, area. Formed as the Children’s Home Society in the late nineteenth century, the organization commissioned this history to commemorate its 100th anniversary. The history focused on the organization’s start as an orphanage and later development in providing comprehensive services. Parts of the history continue to be used to describe the organization’s origins.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Iron County Interpretive Guide project was made possible when the county's economic development body devoted funds to create historical markers along several trails in the county. After researching these very specific geographic areas, plaques were created, detailing the history of these northern Wisconsin areas, and placed at key locations along county hiking and cross-country skiing trails.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mrs Balzer (Mary Klingel Fronert), murder victim. Artist sketches from the murder trial. Source: Mankato Free Press 2 Jan 1897.</image:caption>
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