known Minnesota crimes. In 1962 a St.  Paul attorney named Eugene Thompson hired someone to kill his wife,  Carol. Unbeknownst to Thompson, his man hired someone else to  actually do the job. The second man fatally wounded Mrs. Thomspon in  her house but she managed to escape him. She went to a neighbors  house for help while her assailant fled the scene. The sloppiness  and brutality of the crime attracted great attention. The murderers  were quickly caught and gave up Thompson, who denied knowing  anything about the crime for many years afterwards. In 1972,  Virginia Piper, the wife of a wealthy Orono banker, was kidnapped. A  million