Category: Police Chief Barney Rosenhagen

• The Murder of Elfrieda Knaak

  

  Image: Police Officer Eugene Spaid examines shoes and a purse belonging to Elfrieda Knaak in the furnace room of the Lake Bluff police station, where she was found naked and burned on October 30, 1928. There were also signs of electrocution and head trauma.

  December 16, 2024

  1920s, American History, Charles Hitchcock, Chicago Tribune, Chris Louis, crime & punishment, Death, Elfrieda Knakk, event & history, History Daily, Inquest, Knakk Brothers, Lake Bluff, Illinois, Love Triangle, Marie Mueller, murder, Murder & Mayhem, Murder in a frurnace, people, photographs, Police Chief Barney Rosenhagen, Private Investigator, Sgt. Eugene Spaid, The Chicago Herald & Examiner, Unknown Assailants, Unsolved Murder, Village Hall

  1920s, American History, Charles Hitchcock, Chicago Tribune, Chief of Police Barney Rosenhagen, Chris Louis, crime & punishment, Death, Deerfield, Elfrieda Knakk, event & history, History Daily, Illinois, Inquest, Knakk Brothers, Lake Bluff, Love Triangle, Marie Mueller, murder, Murder & Mayhem, Murder in a furnace, people, Private Investigator, Sgt. Eugene Spaid, Spiritualism, The Chicago Herald & Examiner, Unknown Assailants, Unsolved Murder, Village Hall