Final Harvest An American Tragedy Author:Andrew H. Malcolm The gripping true story of murder in the Heartland. On a September day in 1983, debt-ridden Minnesota farmer Jim Jenkins gunned down the Buffalo Ridge Bank officials who had repossessed his farm, and three days later took his own life.
on the misty morning of sept 29 1983 the small town of ruthon minnesota was stunned by two murders rudy blythe the local bank president and toby thurlin his chief loan officer died in a sudden fusillade of preciselly aimed bullets the murders the first in a string of violent outburst across the troubled midwest were symptoms of painful changes creeping across the vast countryside forever altering the farms towns and cities of the heartland and the nation itself