1 - Homicide in a Manner Not Known

In the first episode of the Forgotten Darkness podcast, we examine the brutal murder - or was it? - of David Shearer in 1915 Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, and also hear a bizarre tale of a new type of phantom limb pain.

 

Sources

"Eyes cut out in brutal tragedy," Wilkes-Barre Evening News, June 12, 1915.

 Find a Grave: David Miles Shearer.  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37990945/david-miles-shearer

 "In other counties," Altoona Tribune, June 16, 1915.

 "Man found dead a case of murder and not suicide," Lock Haven Express, June 11, 1915.

 "Probing murder," New Castle Herald, June 12, 1915.

 "Tale of a severed arm," Philadelphia Inquirer, December 2, 1896.