The Hofers again prevailed, and Emma was raised right alongside her cousins as another sister. "She said 'Curt, I tried to hang on to my teacher's neck until my little arm couldn't take it anymore.'" "She was seven years old and the sheriff came in and took her right out of class, and she told me one time when we were driving," said Hanson. They did win custody of Emma, only to have it briefly challenged again when Emma was in the second grade because someone claimed her aunt and uncle were unfit parents.
Christina could been seen in a funeral photo holding Emma, all in white, by the second casket.įollowing the murders, Emma was at the center of at least two different custody battles as the guardian of her parent's estate wanted her to be raised in an instituion. She was immediately taken to a neighbor’s house until her Aunt Christina, her mother’s older sister, could take her in. When Emma had been discovered in her crib, she had probably been alone in the house for two days. This is not to say that it did not happen that way, just that nothing was found in the research to support this claim. So was someone, even the suspect, coming back to the scene of the crime to make sure Emma was okay? In his novel, “The Murdered Family,” author and Turtle Lake Native Vernon Keel says he could find nothing in the legal or historical record to support that story. One story that is part of the lore of this tragedy is that even though she had been left alone, her diaper was dry and she was clean, fed and seemingly well cared for. There have been many rumors about the condition in which she was found.
Submitted photo What happened immediately following the murders?īaby Emma was found crying in her crib Saturday, April 24 - two days after the murder - by Wolf neighbors John and Jessie Kraft. Emma Wolf Hanson was too young to remember what happened the day her family was murdered, but she felt the after effects of the tragedy for the rest of her life.
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