Murders On Lovers’ Lane

Episode 6: The Divorcée

Hastings, Nebraska - Part II

The investigation into the murders of Hazel Bird and Clarence Yager draws investigators from across Nebraska and from as far as Indiana. Intriguing persons of interest blow into and out of town in the weeks around the murders. And the police have a surplus of theories of motive, most of which center around Hazel Bird's love life.

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Clarence Yager Grave

Hazel Bird Grave

Ancestry

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Hastings Daily Tribune

Adams County Democrat

Harvard Courier

The Lincoln Star

Omaha Daily News

Nebraska State Journal

McCook Daily Gazette

Wikipedia

Music:

Seven Off by Kevin MacLeod

Episode 5: The Widower

Another three weeks pass with no new Lovers' Lane murders. A couple in Nebraska, brought together by the eerily similar tragedies that have shaped their lives, takes an automobile ride one summer Sunday night and never returns.

The strange clues found at the murder scene raise more questions than they answer. And the town's recent rash of robberies might mean that the killer has been lurking for a while.

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Findagrave 

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L Bird Ancestry

H Bird Ancestry 

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Hastings Daily Tribune

Adams County Democrat

Harvard Courier

The Lincoln Star

Music: 

Seven Off by Kevin MacLeod

Chapter 4: The Foursome

Two weeks after the Illinois attacks that left Ivan Blake dead and Frances Shuster wounded, a group of young adults are out for a carefree summer night in Denver when everything goes horrifically awry. 

The case takes strange twists and turns over the years, with unexpected witnesses and odd tales that don't line up. Does it fit with the other cases, or is this an entirely new murderer stalking Lovers' Lane?

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The Daily Journal

Aspen Daily Times

Oak Creek Times

The Daily Times

The Englewood Herald

The Colorado Transcript

Fort Collins Coloradoan

SF Examiner

Albuquerque Journal

Fairbury Journal 

Salt Lake Telegram

Fred Funkner census

Music: 

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Chapter 3: The Survivor

Five weeks after the Indiana murders of Katherine Herbers and Howard Fisher, two more lovers are interrupted while trysting on a lonely road in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. This time, one of them survives.

The murderer leaves a survivor--and also a witness who lives a life of secrets...secrets that stayed uncovered for nearly a century, until now. 

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Newspapers.com:

The Dispatch

Journal Gazette

Rock Island Argus

Chic Tribune

Effingham Daily Record

The True Republican

Tri-County Press

MyHeritage

Frances - Census

Martin Schuster - Census

Ivan - Census

Find A Grave

Muriel grave

John LaChance Grave

Frances Grave

Digital Research Library of Illinois History Journal

Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection

Naperville Clarion

Fort Worth News Sentinel 

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Chapter Two: The Bandit

The hunt for the Fort Wayne Lovers' Lane Killer goes on, focusing on the so-called "Bicycle Bandit" as police chase leads all over the state. An inquest reveals a few secrets, but a grand jury comes to naught. Just as the grand jury is winding down, though, word of another murder, strikingly similar, makes its way to Fort Wayne...

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Sources:

Esterwegen (wikipedia)

Newspapers.com:

The Herald-Palladium

Clinton Daily Public

Daily Sentinel-Tribune

Huntington Herald

Indianapolis Times, 2

Rushville Republican

Reno Gazette-Journal

The Star-Press

Evansville Press

Findagrave Howard, Findagrave Katherine

Ugh:

Ft Wayne News Sentinel, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Henry_fords_ghost on Reddit / Rails and trails

fakehistory.net

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Old Timey Crimey Presents: The Murders on Lovers' Lane Miniseries

Chapter 1 - The Lovers

Fort Wayne, Indiana. May 6, 1925

A young couple is out for a drive one lovely spring night. The abrupt end to their evening is only the beginning of the terror that will snake across the Midwest in the Jazz Age, only to disappear and return with starting violence in the big city at the start of the Great Depression. 

This is the first episode of our journey down Lovers' Lanes across the United States, lonely roads, private places touched by senseless brutality. 

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Sources:

Newspapers.com:

The Herald-Palladium

Clinton Daily Public

Daily Sentinel-Tribune

Huntington Herald

Indianapolis Times, 2

Rushville Republican

Reno Gazette-Journal

The Star-Press

Evansville Press

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Findagrave Howard, Findagrave Katherine

Ft Wayne News Sentinel, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Henry_fords_ghost on Reddit / Rails and trails

Esterwegen (wikipedia)

fakehistory.net

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Old Timey Crimey Presents: The Murders on Lovers’ Lane Miniseries

Kristy and Amber dig deep into the past, examining a forgotten series of murders that pre-date the term serial killer. Throughout the American Midwest in the 1920s, a murderer, or multiple murderers, stalked lonely roads at night, hunting couples just looking for privacy to be together. Then, when the terror seems to stop, another spate of murders, similar but altogether weirder, started up in Brooklyn. 

With so many competing motives, detectives were at a loss. Join Amber and Kristy as they into the murders that had America anxiously checking the rearview mirror for the better part of a decade -- the Murders on Lovers’ Lane. 

Music by Kevin MacLeod