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Name of the Storyteller:
Jenny Flores
Title of the Story:
Death by the Sea: The Yarmouth
Bootlace Murder, 1900
Story Source Material:
An adaptation of an account of the
Yarmouth Bootlace Murder, as found in Crimes and Punishment: The Illustrated
Crime Encyclopedia, volume 28, H.S. Stuttman, Inc.: Westport, Connecticut,
1994, pp. 3418-3426. I have fictionalized the story by adding dialogue and one
minor character (Elisha Bunting) but the facts of the case are true.
Story Rating:
Young Adults/Adults
Taletype Classification of the
Story:
Historical
Abstract/Summary
Abstract/Summary
of Story: Early on the morning of September 23, 1900, the body of an attractive
young woman was found in a popular “courting” spot on the beach in the English
resort town of Yarmouth. She had been strangled with a bootlace tied in a
distinctive reef-knot. Who was the mysterious woman, and who had murdered her?
After an intensive police investigation, the killer was brought to justice—or
was he? This tragic mystery reaches across a century to snare our interest and
curiosity.
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