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May 26, 1858 – Davenport’s Iowa Daily Gazette publishes the details of the gruesome find of Boyd Wilkinson’s body – Iowa City’s first murder mystery!
Right before Christmas of 1852, a letter arrived in Iowa City lawyer Gilman Folsom’s mail. It’s dated December 10, 1852, and it’s a personal, hand-written letter from a concerned man from Oregon, Illinois. “I have a matter that I wish attended to in your city”… needing legal help in tracking down one “very slippery fellow”… Boyd Wilkinson. Nearly six years later, this same ‘slippery fellow’ met a sad end in one of Iowa City’s most famous murder mysteries.
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