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1. Elfrieda Knaack Newspaper Articles - Seven Xerox newspaper articles found online covering the Elfrieda Knaak murder/suicide mystery. On October 30th, 1928, local school teacher, Elfrieda, was found with deadly burns in the basement of the Village Hall ( the former police station). Her case was ruled a love related suicide in which she burned each of her limbs in the Village Hall's furnace "for purity, for love" regarding her crush on Lake Bluff Police Officer Charles Hitchcock. However, to this day, many believe her suicide was actually a passion fueled murder. Before she passed away from her injuries, Elfrieda made multiple confusing statement's while in and out of consciousness. Some of her final statements reinforce the suicide claim and other statements reinforce the murder claim. These newspaper articles dive into this debate. Nude Woman Found Burned in Furnace - New York Times, October 31, 1928 Held Limbs In Fire, Burned Woman Says - New York Times, November 1, 1928 Frank Threw Me Down - Teacher - The Sheboygan Press, November 1, 1928 Thinks Letter Clue To Burning Mystery: Illinois Sheriff Believes Miss knaak Was Not Alone in Furnace Room - New York Times, November 14, 1928 Who Killed Elfrieda Knaak? - The Charleston Gazette, November 25, 1928 Furnace Death Case Recalled by Arrest - New York Times, August 14, 1929 Reopens Knaak Mystery- New York Times, August 15, 1929

   Elfieda Knaack Newspaper Articles

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2. The Furnace Girl - Moreland, Kraig Moreland, Kraig

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3. Who Really Killed Elfrieda Knaack? - Article clipped from the November 27th, 2016 Chicago Tribune out of the Chicago Flashback section. The article resurfaced the Elfrieda Knaak mystery; bringing up the confusing stories, clues, facts, and bizarre statements that keeps the Elfrieda Knaak mystery interesting to this day.

   Who Really Killed Elfrieda Knaack

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