Pretty, young Hazel Drew was brutally killed in 1908, inspiring the legendary “Twin Peaks” character Laura Palmer. Now, two fans claim they’ve solved the real-life woman’s murder.
More than 100 years later, people are still asking: Whodunnit? Who murdered 20-year old Hazel Drew?
Frost and Lynch agreed it was a great premise for a TV show. They used Drew’s story as inspiration for their character Laura Palmer and suddenly their cult hit crime drama, “Twin Peaks,” which first aired in 1990, was born. The next morning, one of the boys spotted something floating in the stagnant water: A corpse face down with arms outstretched and only the head and shoulders visible.
When the body was removed, its skin was shriveled and as “black as midnight,” the face frozen in a grimace. Decomposition of the body was so advanced, doctors were indecisive about how she died. Even Drew’s father couldn’t be sure it was his own daughter until he was shown her hatpin and broach the following day.A charismatic and striking young beauty, Hazel Drew worked from the age of 14 as a domestic servant for some of the most prominent Republican men in Troy. They included Thomas W.
Jarvis O’Brien, district attorney for Rensselaer County, was called in to investigate. He leaned on his number-one deputy and close pal, Detective Duncan Kaye, “an ardent soldier” in the local Republican Party. Also on board were two detectives active in Republican politics as well. Police heard the couple’s story but did not investigate for a week. Eventually, Detective Powers learned the name of the suspected coach driver: Fred W. Schatzle, an embalmer for the local undertaker and also a Republican politician. Schatzle, it turned out, had telephoned the livery on July 6, requesting a horse and carriage for a friend, William Cushing, the Republican committeeman for the Eleventh Ward.
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