The night before Easter 1905, Miranda Bricker left her sister’s house and made her way through the darkness. Her destination was her living quarters and place of employment, the Maplehurst mansion, the home of Mount Vernon, Ohio’s leading industrialist. Within sight of her destination, an attacker emerged from the darkness, rushing her from behind. Their battle cut across the Maplehurst lawn, ending in Bricker’s death before witnesses could be sure what was happening. The killer melted away into the night.
My guest is Mark Sebastian Jordan, author of The Maplehurst Murder: Mount Vernon’s Most Infamous Unsolved Crime. He walks us through Miranda’s horrific murder, the bloodhound hunt that led to the sheriff’s prime suspect, and the suspect’s eventual death.
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