Minnesota Hwy. 55 winds through bucolic small towns and rolling farmland for most of its stretch between Hastings and the North Dakota border. But it might be called ``Murder Alley'' in the stretch along southern Stearns County. The deaths of Jim and Bren

Minnesota Hwy. 55 winds through bucolic small towns and rolling farmland for most of its stretch between Hastings and the North Dakota border. But it might be called ``Murder Alley'' in the stretch along southern Stearns County. The deaths of Jim and Brenda Clifford and their nephew, found shot in their burned-out house, are just the latest in a series of strange homicide along that part of the Hwy. 55 corridor. -- (THIS PHOTO_Wednesday,04/19/00_Kimball) - - - The Hoskins grave marker at the ________cemetary on Hy 15 north of Kimball.(Photo By DAVID BREWSTER/Star Tribune via Getty Images)