Monday, August 26, 2019

Murder of Anna "Annie" Wiese


On Aug. 26, 1893, around 10 p.m. 20-year-old Anna "Annie" Wiese left a friends home in Vienna Township in Marshall County, Iowa. She was walking home in the moonlight when she was attacked. Someone had clubbed her around the head, stabbed her several times in the breast and back, and cut her throat ear to ear. A brutal end to a young woman.

There were a few suspects that included her former boyfriend, a would-be boyfriend that she spurned, and Emily Bennet, a neighbor, claimed that Annie was flirting with her husband and son. She was even exhumed several times, but nothing came of it.

It was believed that Emily had attacked her with either the help of her husband Cyrus or son Arthur. She was taken to trial but was acquitted. It's said that if the science was better the crime would have probably convicted Emily. 

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