Let's Talk Crime

This was a case that I only discovered a few years ago and it is one of those cases where you are left with more questions than answers. I do not do a lot of these types of cases because I like to see conclusions, but I also like to see the facts presented as they were, in as many places as possible rather than allow rumor and false narratives linger. That is something that in the day of the Internet is so easy to do. Once again I am touching on an old case, but much older than the two previous cases. This one began in 1900. It was said to be “solved” in 1902 but that was not true. It continued in 1920 and to be fair may never end officially. If you go to the website findagrave.com and look up Carrie Selvage you will see a story. The story presented there ends in 1902 when the story of her disappearance was allegedly solved. There is an attached photo with a newspaper article from 1920 that does tell a bit more of the story but the memorial itself is, I do not want to say f...

  I debated a bit on which case I wanted to feature first on what I call the re-launch of my blog. My goal is to work on getting several cases up in a fairly short time period so for the time being I want to do either simple cases that will not take a whole lot of research or do cases that I know fairly well already. I am still doing all the research as if I know nothing because no matter when the case took place you never know if more information or something interesting has surfaced since I last looked over the case. So, this case fell into the category of one that I know I would like to say extremely well. It also came to mind because someone contacted me the other day and asked me if I knew about a case from Indy (Indianapolis), where I grew up and I am now back living, related to American Crime. Initially I thought they were talking about the limited series that has had a few seasons that have been dedicated to a specific high profile crime so I said “No.” My intere...