The March 1963 murder of St. Paul wife and mother Carol Thompson shocked the Twin Cities as few local crimes have. Despite community fears of a homicidal maniac, investigators soon focused on T. Eugene "Cotton" Thompson, the victim’s husband, as their prime suspect.

2023年10月25日 · Carol Swoboda Thompson was a well-respected wife of an up-and-coming attorney and the mother of four children aged between six and thirteen. On the fateful morning of March 6, 1963, her life took a tragic turn when she encountered an intruder in their comfortable Highland Park home in Saint Paul.

2023年3月4日 · Who Killed Carol Thompson? According to news reports, the investigators found pieces of the Luger pistol’s grip in the Thompson residence, which led them to Dick W.C. Anderson, an ex-convict from Michigan, in April 1963.

The coldblooded slaying of Carol Thompson in her upper-middle-class Highland Park neighborhood — and the Dec. 6 murder conviction of her husband, a successful attorney, …

2015年9月2日 · The saga began the morning of March 6, 1963, when Thompson's wife and the mother of his four children, Carol Thompson, showed up at a neighbor's doorstep, covered in blood after a violent struggle with a home intruder, according to the Minnesota Historical Society.

1988年3月27日 · Carol was the wife of prominent attorney T. Eugene Thompson and the mother of 4 children. She was the daughter of Otto Swoboda and Antonia "Tonia" Valenta Swoboda. She was brutally murdered in her home on March 6, 1963. Later that year her husband was convicted of arranging her murder-for-hire.

It was on March 6, 1963, when Carol Thompson was brutally killed in her St Paul home in a murder-for-hire case. Three men were convicted, including her husband, T. Eugene Thompson, an attorney...

Former Minnesota historian and archivist Lucile Kane once called Carol Thompson's killing the most important murder case in state history.

2022年3月6日 · In 1963, T. Eugene "Cotton" Thompson hired two bumbling hitmen to kill his wife, Carol. The result: he served 19 years in a Minnesota prison.

2015年9月7日 · Thompson had been accused of arranging the murder of his wife, Carol, in their home in St. Paul’s Highland Park neighborhood.