Sunday, September 12, 2021

Murder of Joseph Anderson

 On September 12, 1991, 69-year-old Joseph Anderson went to the Ducks Unlimited Banquet. This would be the last time anyone saw him alive. Police were notified at 1:35 p.m. on September 16 of a suspicious car in the Gladstone Inn parking lot in Jamestown, North Dakota. The car appeared to have bloodstains and a foul odor and may have been there since September 14th.

It was Joseph's 1979 Buick Riviera and inside the trunk was his body. He was only in his underwear and was wrapped in a green sheet that was later found to be from his home. It's either unstated or unknown what his cause of death was. But due to his stomach contents, it's known he died within hours of eating at the banquet. His home was investigated, and it didn't seem to be disturbed. 

Joseph was a self-made man and was successful in business. He invented and pattened a hay grinder. He began manufacturing it in Minot in 1966 and moved the Haybust Manufacturing plant to Jamestown 3 years later. At the time he was employing 100 people. At the time he was looking at opportunities outside of North Dakota.


SOURCES:

North Dakota Attorney General

The Jamestown Sun

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