In 2006, Steven Haataja, a quiet, well-liked math professor from Chadron State College, disappeared. Ninety-five days later, his body was found bound and burned to death on the outskirts of town. Poe Ballantine’s book, Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere, becomes a who and why-dunit, as well as a fairly unsparing examination of his own fractious and complicated family life. To view ...