In 1965, two police officers knocked on the door of a small house in Houston, Texas. They were there to check on Fred and Edwina Rogers, an elderly couple who hadn’t contacted their family for a week. Going inside the house, they found no one. On an impulse, they opened the refrigerator and discovered one …
Officer Charles Bullock knocked loudly on the front door of the house. He and his partner, Officer L.M. Barta, listened intently for any sound coming from inside. They heard nothing. Barta looked around the property. There was nothing out of place that he could see. It was a small, 1.5 story wood frame and …
In 1996, Bobie and Marilyn Blewer, professional food vendors from Missouri, set up their trailer at the Iowa State Fair. It was – and is – one of the biggest fairs in the country and had been a regular stop for the Blewers for twenty years. Then, one sunny afternoon, as thousands of people enjoyed …
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Standing in the hot Florida sun, Jerimy realized that he was finished. The money was gone, and his name was in papers across the country. He had run, had tried to be clever, but now he realized that it had all been pointless. Jerimy took a deep breath and lowered his head. Besides, he was …
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When it was built in 1903, the Claypool Hotel was designed to be the best and brightest of Indianapolis’ hotels. And, for forty years, it was. Then, starting in 1943, a serious of tragic events that included two murders and a fire led to the Claypool’s dramatic destruction in the 1960’s. But does something of …
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Bates House had to go. It was beautiful and famous, but it had faded. There were modern amenities that it couldn’t offer, not to mention the fact that it just wasn’t big enough to accommodate the growing number of people that were coming into the city. The owner, Edward Claypool, knew that. When he …
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In 1954, two maids found a horrible odor coming from a dresser in one of the rooms at the Claypool Hotel. When the dresser was searched, hotel staff found the badly decomposed body of a woman in the bottom drawer. Her name was Dorothy Poore, an 18-year-old trying to build a future in Indianapolis. What …
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Dorothy Poore was nervous. She knew that there were more opportunities for a good-paying job in Indianapolis, but now that she was here, Dorothy had already run into problems. First there had been the man at the bus stop. He was a little older than her, around his mid-twenties, with dark hair and a …
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Lillian McNamara wondered how many times she had checked these rooms. It was part of her job as a housekeeper to make sure that the guest rooms were clean, presentable, and didn’t need any repairs. The Claypool Hotel was the go-to event venue in Indianapolis, and the people who stayed there expected a fresh …
Maoma Ridings had joined the United States Army during World War II to aid the war effort. A professional nurse turned physiotherapist; she was a young woman who enjoyed a good time. On August 30, 1943, she was found murdered in an Indianapolis hotel room. Who had ended the life of the well-liked nurse from …
