Monday, January 1, 2024

A – Z Cities with Mysteries – Real & Fictional

 

Iowa City, Iowa

There are many mystery books where a house is being remodeled and a skeleton is found behind the wall. Was the victim murdered? Can the cold case be solved?

Mary Helen Stefaniak can beat that claim with a true-life twist on that old trope J

In 2004, Mary Helen and her husband were tearing down walls of an upstairs bedroom in their home— a former Stagecoach Inn. No hidden bones or skeletons here. Instead, they discovered an exterior wall formerly covered by lath and plaster was papered with circus posters.






Read Mary Helen’s story here.


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