The Shell Lake Massacre

Victor hoffman was arrested on august nineteenth, four days after the massacre. The same day victor was arrested, the funeral was held for the nine murdered members of the peterson family. 15 hundred people from the shell lake area and neighboring communities gathered at god's acre cemetery in shell lake to watch as they were lowered into a mass grave. After phyllis was orphaned, cathy and her husband lee picked phyllis up from shell lake and brought her back to b c to raise her as their own.