Just watched this detailed video on the case from Mysterious WV youtube channel
It has a lot of info.
There's a lot from census reports tracing Louise Peterson Flesher & her family. There's also a possible suggestion that Louise Peterson Flesher may have suffered from mental illness. One of her daughters got married very young, and needed parental permission. As the video shows, on the marriage certificate, where Peterson Flesher should have signed as the mother it says "Mentally Ill- Can't sign"
Importantly, video also discusses what others have speculated on this thread, that the area where Peterson Flesher was found was isolated & rural & someone would "have to be familiar with the property in question to even know that the cistern is there."
Also, the original files from the 1981 investigation cannot be located.
It has a lot of info.
There's a lot from census reports tracing Louise Peterson Flesher & her family. There's also a possible suggestion that Louise Peterson Flesher may have suffered from mental illness. One of her daughters got married very young, and needed parental permission. As the video shows, on the marriage certificate, where Peterson Flesher should have signed as the mother it says "Mentally Ill- Can't sign"
Importantly, video also discusses what others have speculated on this thread, that the area where Peterson Flesher was found was isolated & rural & someone would "have to be familiar with the property in question to even know that the cistern is there."
Also, the original files from the 1981 investigation cannot be located.
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