Blood Red by Staub Wendy Corsi

Author:Staub, Wendy Corsi [Staub, Wendy Corsi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, thriller, Suspense, Crime, Horror, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780062349736
Amazon: 0062349732
Goodreads: 24500161
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2015-09-29T07:00:00+00:00

From the Mundy’s Landing Tribune Archives

Editorial

June 23, 1992

On Monday, researchers in Moscow announced that they had used computer modeling to positively identify the remains of Russian Czar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. Murdered by the Bolsheviks on July 17, 1918, along with their five children, three servants, and the family doctor, the Romanovs were among nine skeletons unearthed last year in a shallow grave in Yekaterinburg. Tests will continue on the remaining bodies, along with the search for the missing two. That this development comes as a prelude to next week’s historical society fund-raiser is an interesting coincidence.

Last year’s inaugural gathering was such a resounding success, drawing attendees and media attention from across the globe, that the society determined that it will be an annual event whose purpose is twofold. Primarily conceived to raise much-needed funding for the non-profit, the event lured armchair sleuths by extending an invitation to solve the so-called Sleeping Beauty murders that took place here in 1916. Never identified, the trio of young female victims is buried in Holy Angels Cemetery.

At last summer’s event, sitting on a panel of scientists and criminologists, chemistry professor Lina Abu Bakr of Hadley College stated that it might very well be possible now to identify those bodies using modern scientific methods that were unavailable in 1916. The issue will be further examined at this year’s convention. Many locals are in favor of exhumation in order to lay the mystery to rest at last. Yet perhaps an equal number of us are opposed to disturbing the remains, citing ethical or fiscal reasons.

Indeed, is it prudent, in this pivotal presidential election year, with an ever-tremulous economy and unemployment at levels not seen in nearly a decade, to devote significant resources to further investigate a crime whose victims have not only been deceased for three quarters of a century, but whose loved ones and yes, most likely the perpetrator himself, are likely also dead or infirm?

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