ghoststeps82
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Mary Hake was active for being 84. She bowled, she sewed, she was active in her church. She had just planned an 80th birthday party for her younger sister. She also was a creature of habit. Every night she would close her drapes in her windows. But when her neighbors noticed that those drapes hadn’t been closed on the night of March 8th her neighbors grew concerned. So at 1 am her neighbors entered the house and found Mary Hake dead in her kitchen in a pool of her own blood. Investigators searched for any signs that an assailant had broken into the home but found none. In fact, her neighbors maintain that all doors were locked when they entered the house.
Now even with finding her in a pool of blood initially it was ruled that the death was from natural causes. However, once the coroner’s office got Mary’s body back to the office they ruled that her death was in fact a murder and that she had been stabbed multiple times (hence the pool of blood). But this case is hampered for another reason: at some point after the death was ruled a natural death someone gave the all clear for the murder scene to be cleaned before the call was made to the St. Joseph County Metro Homicide Unit. Then you compound the fact that the Homicide Unit did not arrive until the evening of March 9th at which point they found the crime scene was all gone. On March 10th the Coroner’s office released the finding into Mary’s death stating she died “as a result of head and neck trauma including multiple sharp force injuries”.
At this point the police had a suspect shortly after the murder but were unable to completely link him to the murder.
Now even with finding her in a pool of blood initially it was ruled that the death was from natural causes. However, once the coroner’s office got Mary’s body back to the office they ruled that her death was in fact a murder and that she had been stabbed multiple times (hence the pool of blood). But this case is hampered for another reason: at some point after the death was ruled a natural death someone gave the all clear for the murder scene to be cleaned before the call was made to the St. Joseph County Metro Homicide Unit. Then you compound the fact that the Homicide Unit did not arrive until the evening of March 9th at which point they found the crime scene was all gone. On March 10th the Coroner’s office released the finding into Mary’s death stating she died “as a result of head and neck trauma including multiple sharp force injuries”.
At this point the police had a suspect shortly after the murder but were unable to completely link him to the murder.
