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Weibel & Frydenlund Murders:

The slain bodies of Suzzette Frydenlund, 29, her mother, Celia Weibel, 55, and her stepfather, Leroy Weibel, were found in the Weibels' mobile home in the Brookview Mobile Home Court between La Crosse and Coon Valley on September 26, 1992.  Frydenlund's two children, a 6 year-old girl and a 2 year-old boy, were in the mobile home at the time of the murders but found unharmed.  Suzzette Frydenlund's husband, James Frydenlund, 34, of Minneapolis, MN, was acquitted of the crimes.