Chester died in 1916, and Clara many years later in 1950, upon which their daughter, Elisabeth, born April 22, 1894, inherited Glensheen.
Before Elisabeth's death, the family had planned to donate the Glensheen Mansion to the University of Minnesota Duluth.
[4] On June 27, 1977, at 7:00am, Elisabeth Congdon and her nurse Velma Pietila (born April 26, 1911)[citation needed] were found murdered.
[2] The motive was initially thought to be robbery, as the bedroom had been ransacked and there was a missing jewelry box.
[1] Three days before Elisabeth's death, Marjorie had authorized a paper saying Roger was to receive about $2.5 million of her share.
Marjorie's children filed a civil suit against her inheritance, arguing she was involved in the murder.
[3] John DeSanto, the prosecutor of the case, kept a key piece of evidence from the trial, the envelope with the fingerprint that was contested.
[3] Marjorie spent nearly two years in prison in the 1980s for arson of her own home shared with third husband, Wally Hagen, who died in 1992.
She pleaded guilty to fraud and removing money from the bank account of Roger Sammis, who prior to his death had been under her care.