Lone tree

Description:

Over the course of an hour on an overcast morning in December, 1985, an Iowa farmer shotgunned his wife, his banker, his neighbor and himself. Those four blasts would echo throughout that bitter winter, as other farmers across the Midwest took aim at enemies, loved ones and themselves. It was an era of desperation fueled by the failings of individual farms-and, as a new book makes clear, of the American way of aguiculture.

subjects: Agriculture,  Case studies,  True Crime,  Economic aspects,  Economic aspects of Agriculture,  Economic conditions,  Farm foreclosures,  Farm mortgages,  Farmers,  Murder,  Psychological aspects,  Psychological aspects of Farm foreclosures

People: Dale Burr (d. 1985)

Places: Iowa,  Johnson County,  United States

Times: 1985