Dakota Datebook: Takako Konishi Urban Myth

Nov. 12, 2018 —

This week in 2001, a Japanese woman was discovered dead after a mysterious cross-state sojourn that many believed was her search for the lost treasure depicted in the Coen brothers’ movie, “Fargo.”

Takako Konishi was first noticed by a trucker who spotted the 28-year-old wandering near a landfill on the outskirts of Bismarck; she was wearing a black miniskirt that marked her as an...