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Daily Mail, long and well-illustrated:
From Sand Lake to Twin Peaks - How one woman's grisly unsolved murder
in 1908 inspired the 90s cult TV drama making a comeback on Showtime
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Our history: Looking into old murder
From Sand Lake to Twin Peaks - How one woman's grisly unsolved murder
in 1908 inspired the 90s cult TV drama making a comeback on Showtime
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Hazel Drew - a blond bombshell with a 'well-formed figure' - was last seen picking raspberries by the side of Taborton Road at 7pm on July 7, 1908. Her badly decomposed body was found in Teal Pond four days later.
Police honed in on a dozen suspects, including a 'dim-witted' farm boy, a drunken charcoal peddler, a dentist who had proposed to Drew despite being married and a professor who employed her.
Then there was Drew's 'suicidal and melancholy' uncle William Taylor - who sounds like a character straight out of Twin Peaks - who lived near the pond and helped pull her body from the water.
Locals who had no obvious connection to Drew also came under suspicion, notably the 'half-witted' son of a Sand Lake widow who was believed to torture farm animals.
A 'florid-faced' stranger spotted near the pond and a man with a 'dark-complexion' seen with a girl who looked like Drew on a trolley bus were also suspected.
Drew's skull had been smashed in and a piece of ribbon was wrapped around her neck. But that didn't stop people speculating that she'd been mowed down by a reckless 'automobilist' in a newly-invented 'touring car.'
It was briefly suggested that the driver had panicked and tried to make the accident look like murder.
Drew's death was the newspaper sensation of the day. Journalists arrived from all over the US to report on the twists and turns of the 'Teal Pond mystery.'
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Saratogian:
Our history: Looking into old murder