Dark History: The Case of Margaret "Peggy" Mortimer

Murder, She Told by Kristen Seavey

Feb 11, 202664:19Society & Culture

1937 - Mexico, Missouri On the eve of Thanksgiving in 1937, 46-year-old Margaret Mortimer, who went by Peggy, was just steps from her front door when she was attacked and killed by an unknown assailant. Investigators fou...

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