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The Death of Carrie Selvage

You have often heard me talk about my list of cases and working my way through them. I do not always know how a case made it to the list or even what it is always about before I sit down to find a case that catches my interest at the moment and has me doing research. I am often surprised when I come across an interesting cases and I do not remember hearing anything about it, especially when not only it takes place in Indiana, but in Indianapolis specifically where I spent most of my “growing up” years. I lived there from the age of four until the age of twenty-eight. Now, granted I was not alive in 1900 when this case first “took place” nor in 1920 when legally it seems it was solved, but I had never heard of this case. Note that I used the word “case” and not “crime” when I described this story but also know that while the crime of murder has not and cannot probably ever be proven here that does not mean that there was not a murder, or even a crime. Because of the era in which th...