This is exactly right.

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Listener discretion is advised. The idea of the water burial I find very spooky.

She has rather become the lady of our lake.

It had been more than a month since Edward Ruloff beat his wife to death with a marble

pestle.

He had propped up Harriet's body to examine the wound.

And he told Hamilton Freeman, I tried to bring her back to life.

I administered every restorative I had at hand, dressed the wound carefully, and did all I

could to restore her. He drugged his daughter to stop her crying. He emptied the trunk

into Cayuga Lake before sunrise. The afternoon of August 2nd 1845, Harriet's older brothers E Ephraim and William Scott, were sitting inside Hale's store in Ithaca.

It was a hot and sticky day.

Sweat beads drip down their temples.

They hadn't seen their younger sister or her two-month-old

baby for six weeks. That was just too long to have no contact. And Edward had

gone missing too. He was last seen at William's house the day after he returned from Cayuga Lake.

What was going on?

Craigscut says the family asked a neighbor to go inside Ruloff's house.

Somebody actually went up there and checked.

And they said, no, she hasn't been here.

We haven't seen anything I ever have a nerd from her.

The brothers were convinced that something terrible had happened.

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