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1934 Babes in the Woods murder (Pine Grove Furnace)....
1934 Babes in the Woods murder (Pine Grove Furnace)....
Item # 722676
November 26, 1934
THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL, Kansas, November 26, 1934
* Babes in the Wood murders
* Pine Grove Furnace Park
* Carlisle, Pennsylvania
The front page has a one column heading: "'CROSS' ON BROW OF ONE OF 3 DEAD GIRLS MYSTIFIES" with subheads. (see images) Also there is a rare three column photo showing the girls laying on the blanket in the woods. I covered up this image for discretion purposes. If you want to see this obvious objectionable image, you may contact us and we will send it to you privately.
Complete with 14 pages, light toning and minor wear at the margins, a few small binding holes along the spine, generally in nice condition.
AI notes: In November 1934, the small Pennsylvania community near Carlisle was shocked by the discovery of three young girls’ bodies in the woods along what is now Pennsylvania Route 233, near Pine Grove Furnace State Park. The victims—Norma Sedgwick (12), Dewilla Noakes (10), and Cordelia Noakes (8)—were found wrapped in a blanket, having been suffocated or strangled, and remained unidentified for several days, prompting a nationwide search for information. Investigators eventually traced the girls to a family traveling from California, revealing that their deaths were linked to Elmo Noakes, the father of Dewilla and Cordelia and stepfather to Norma. Shortly after the murders, Noakes committed a murder–suicide, killing his 18-year-old niece, Winifred Pierce, and then taking his own life near Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 100 miles away. Motives are believed to have involved financial strain and fear for the family’s future, although the exact reasoning was never fully established. The case, occurring during the hardships of the Great Depression, drew national attention, and the girls were later buried in Westminster Cemetery in Carlisle, with a roadside marker now commemorating the tragic event.
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