Harlen Christensen, 37 and living in Fargo, Minnesota, was beaten to death on November 12, 1985. Michael Shane Lefthand and others — Charles Bush, Eugene Littlewind, and Kenneth TeJohn — led Christensen to railroad tracks near the Red River, where Lefthand allegedly beat and stomped him to death while the others watched. Lefthand then placed Christensen’s body on the tracks, apparently hoping a train would pass over it.

The case went cold until October 1990, when Lefthand was arrested in Minnesota on unrelated murder charges and later volunteered to speak with authorities about Christensen’s killing. He signed a written confession on November 6, 1990, then recanted on November 17. The state charged him on November 28, 1990; at trial Bush, Littlewind and TeJohn testified they had seen Lefthand kill Christensen. Lefthand was convicted and received life sentences in North Dakota and Minnesota.

Did anyone in Fargo at the time remember seeing Christensen with a group of men that November evening?