A tragedy that shook the Midwest

Looking back on 50 years since the Gitchie Manitou mass murder SITE OF A 50-YEAR-OLD TRAGEDY Fifty years ago, on Nov. 17, 1973, Gitchie Manitou State Preserve was the site of the worst multiple murder in Lyon County history. Stewart Baade, Dana Baade, Roger Essem and Mike Hadrath were shot by three strangers that night….