The wife of the “sausage king of Chicago” disappears without a trace…until police search a suspicious vat in the basement of his factory, fueling rumors of exactly how he got rid of her.
Sources for this episode include:Alchemy of Bones: Chicago's Luetgert Murder Case of 1897 by Robert Loerzel
Contemporaneous reporting by the Chicago Tribune
The 'Sausage Vat Murder,' 1897 by Harold Schechter, The Yale Review
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