In March 1856, a dead body washed onto the shore of the Mississippi River.
Who had bound and pitched this wealthy man into the river? Why? As repo.
The body belonged to a man who had been a passenger on the luxurious steamboat known as the Ohio Belle, and he was the son of a southern planter.
But this body, with its arms and legs tied to a chair, struck an especially eerie chord.
In those days, people fished corpses from the river with alarming frequency.
Nothing out of the ordinary.
In March 1856, a dead body washed onto the shore of the Mississippi River