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Case File: Froseth Family (1930)
409 W. 3rd St, Washburn, Wisconsin, was the home of the Froseth family. On the morning of Tue, 21 Oct 1930, concerned members of the community found that the entire family had been killed. They learned that the father of the family, George Froseth, had brutally killed his wife Edith, and four children – Neil, Adelaide, George, and James – with a claw hammer. The home was originally numbered #509 but the street numbers were adjusted in 1918. The maps below show either side of the street in 1918,1966, and 2024. Across the street, at 408 W. 3rd St (no longer existent), lived 9 year old Robert Thoreson, a classmate and friend of Neil Froseth. It was Robert who went to see his friend that morning before school and was the first to discover the scene through a downstairs window and alert his teacher. The Thoreson house did not yet exist when the below 1918 map was drawn up, and it has since been torn down – unless it is actually the house labeled as #410 in the map below.
