In July of 1908, the bludgeoned body of a young woman named Hazel Drew was found floating in a pond in Sand Lake, New York. In the following weeks investigators would be flummoxed by the mystery of not only her who Hazel’s killer was, but why she had decided to travel to the rural location fashionably dressed and alone.

This is the real-life crime that Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost stated was the inspiration for the television murder of Laura Palmer. My guests Mark T. Givens and David Bushman used that as a starting off point in their quest to learn more about this sensational unsolved case. Their book is called “Murder at Teal’s Pond: Hazel Drew and the Mystery That Inspired Twin Peaks”.

More about the book at Amazon here.

Mark’s Deer Meadow Twin Peaks podcast here.