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Wolf family murders
1920 mass murder in the United States
Wolf family murders
The Wolf family murders occurred on April 22, 1920. Spouses Beata and Jacob Wolf, along with five of their six young daughters, and a teenaged farmhand were found murdered in their family farm outside of Turtle Lake, North Dakota. As of 2026, it is the worst case of mass murder in the state of North Dakota. On the day of April 24, 1920, a farmer named John Kraft went to the Wolf residence to retrieve a tool the patriarch of the family, Jacob Wolf, had borrowed only to discover the bodies of the Wolf family and the teenage farmhand brutally murdered. The sole survivor was Emma Wolf, the baby of the family. The neighbor, Henry Layer, confessed to the murders, after it was revealed that he and Jacob had trouble in the past. Regarding sparing Emma, he said he would have killed her if he knew she was in the other room. It is speculated that Layer did not act alone and someone helped him with the murders.
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