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\nThis three hu ndred 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 woma n was found murdered in a field on the outskirts of Rahway\, NJ. \; Sh e had been brutally beaten\, and her throat had been cut from ear to ear.& nbsp\; The story provides a detailed account of the strange case\, which s hook 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&mdash\;and the police and priva te detectives from cities around the tri-state area&mdash\;ended without s uccess.
\n\;As many as ten thousand people\, some coming from a s far west as St. Louis and as far south as Atlanta\, would file past the victim&rsquo\;s coffin to see if she might be a missing relative or friend .
\n\;Although\, there were numerous identifications of the vic tim\, 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.
\nTo this day\, the young woman remains unidentified\, t he murderer unknown\, and the case unsolved.
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