| 
| 
| 
| 
Author of - "The Case of the Unknown Woman: The Story of One of the Most Intriguing Murder Mysteries of the Nineteenth Century."
* Use this link to join our virtual program: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81500504440
This three hundred nine page mystery by Rahway author, F. Alexander Shipley is a tale based on an actual event that began on March 26, 1887, when a young woman was found murdered in a field on the outskirts of Rahway, NJ. She had been brutally beaten, and her throat had been cut from ear to ear. The story provides a detailed account of the strange case, which shook the community, and came to be regarded as one of the most intriguing murder mysteries of the 19th Century. Efforts to solve the dastardly deed by local, county, and state authorities—and the police and private detectives from cities around the tri-state area—ended without success.
As many as ten thousand people, some coming from as far west as St. Louis and as far south as Atlanta, would file past the victim’s coffin to see if she might be a missing relative or friend.
Although, there were numerous identifications of the victim, and even several confessions to this horrendous crime, the murderer was never caught and the victim never identified. In later years, there was even some speculation that the crime might have been the work of Jack the Ripper.
To this day, the young woman remains unidentified, the murderer unknown, and the case unsolved.
At the conclusion of the program please feel free to take a brief online survey here:
https://www.projectoutcome.org/responses/54814
* Virtual programs work best with the current version of the browsers listed below:
