Second Edition of "Torture at the Back Forty" True Crime Book is Now Available

GREEN BAY, Wis. - June 19, 2025 - PRLog -- More than forty years have passed since the 1983 gang rape and murder of single mother Margaret Anderson on a cold December night in Green Bay, Wisconsin. True crime author Mike Dauplaise has now updated his 2009 book chronicling the crime and subsequent manhunt for Margaret's killers with a newly released second edition of Torture at the Back Forty: The Gang Rape and Slaying of Margaret Anderson.

Dauplaise practically makes the reader feel Margaret's last breaths as he recreates the night she was killed. He then takes us to her home state of Montana, and finally along the investigative pursuit of a lifetime. This America's Most Wanted drama ends nearly five years after the crime with the capture of the last of her four attackers after a first-season episode of the famed television show.

Dauplaise exposes the motorcycle gang culture of the 1980s to reveal what was done to Margaret and the unrelenting efforts by law enforcement and prosecutors to bring her attackers to justice. True crime enthusiasts will revel in the detail of the investigative reporting and the twists and turns of the manhunt.

"A murder story that must be told, for it represents the worst of human nature," commented Philip Carlo, noted true crime author of The Night Stalker, The Ice Man, and The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath. "The only thing colder than the killers' hearts is the frigid air surrounding Green Bay, Wisconsin, that terrible winter. There is no fat here; the writing is lean and moves swiftly."

Torture at the Back Forty: The Gang Rape and Slaying of Margaret Anderson is available on Amazon in paperback and digital formats at https://amzn.to/3GaV4Gy. The paperback version also is available for wholesale purchases through the IngramSpark system at ISBN 978-0-9960488-2-8.

About the author

Mike Dauplaise is a professional writer based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He began his career in 1979 as a sports and news reporter for the Green Bay Press-Gazette. He later worked as a sports and news reporter for the Wausau (Wis.) Daily Herald, sports editor for the Green Bay News-Chronicle, and copy editor and sports reporter for the Green Bay Press-Gazette. After leaving the newspaper business, he worked as a communications specialist in a corporate marketing setting while growing his freelance writing business.

Dauplaise teamed up with former Green Bay Packers security director Jerry Parins to co-author Bodyguard to the Packers: Beat Cops, Brett Favre and Beating Cancer, and with physician Rolf Lulloff to co-author Living and Loving with Parkinson's Disease: Our Partnership through a 45-Year Journey.