Retro Crime Story Time
History hides secrets. Crimes that once shocked entire communities often fade into silence, but retrospect has a way of revealing what was missed.We dig into forgotten cases and walk the places where they happened. We examine overlooked details.
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Mrs. Mary Dandridge (opens the original)
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Labor Day week of 1899, a mysterious young woman named Mrs. Ed Palmer was found dead in a hotel in Washington, Pennsylvania. It seemed like a simple locked-door suicide, but the body had been manipulated after death, and there was no sign of her husband. There was no sign that Ed Palmer even existed.
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