A young teacher and saleswoman walks into a city hall basement on Halloween week and ends up at the center of one of Illinois' strangest unsolved mysteries. What happened to Elfrida Knack, the "lady in the furnace" - and why did her own story keep changing until the very end? Stephanie and Natalia unravel the eerie 1928 Lake Bluff case that starts with a janitor finding a woman nearly burned beyond recognition and only gets more unsettling from there. The clues are bizarre, the timeline is messy, and the people closest to Elfrida - including police chief Barney Rosenhagen and night officer Charles Hitchcock - make the story even harder to pin down. Perfect for spooky-season listening and anyone who wants a deeply strange case that still has people arguing more than 100 years later.
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Sources:
"Girl Found in Lake Bluff Police Station Near Death from Burns Says She Thrust Self into Flames as Love Test". The Chicago Tribune. 31 October 1928. p. 46.
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