Aug. 7, 2024

Novela 6-The Lady of the Lake-The Murder of Hallie Illingworth w/ Creepy Confidential

Novela 6-The Lady of the Lake-The Murder of Hallie Illingworth w/ Creepy Confidential

Out on Lake Crescent in July of 1940, fishermen come across the body of a woman wrapped in blankets floating on the surface. The body was a startling sight to behold as a strange chemical process had turned her flesh into a soap-like substance and her...

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Out on Lake Crescent in July of 1940, fishermen come across the body of a woman wrapped in blankets floating on the surface. The body was a startling sight to behold as a strange chemical process had turned her flesh into a soap-like substance and her what was left of her face had made her virtually impossible to identify. Meanwhile, 3 years before, Hallie Illingworth, a waitress at the Lake Crescent Tavern had disappeared around Christmas time in 1937. Where was Hallie, and what happened to the poor woman found floating in Lake Crescent? Join Noelle from Creepy Confidential in this special take over of The Book of the Dead to find out the mystery of the Lady of the Lake.

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Dark Cast Network indie pods with the Dark Sign Lake

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Crescent located in the Olympic National Forest in the northwestern

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part of Washington State. The lake has a long history

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of tales and legends, but this true crime story of

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the Beloved Lady of the Lake is a tragic and

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bizarre case file on the already existing stack. Hallie Illingworth

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was a waitress working at the Lake Crescent Tavern. She

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was a Kentucky farm girl looking for a new beginning

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in the Evergreen State. She had married a man named

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Montgomery J. Illingworth, known casually as Monty, who was a

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beer truck driver and known.

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To be a ladies man.

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Their marriage was volatile, and just five months in a

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fight broke out that was so fierce the police had

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to be called to break it up. Unfortunately, Hallie went

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missing shortly before Christmas in nineteen thirty seven after she

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didn't show up for work. July sixth, nineteen forty, a

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few fishermen were out on Lake Crescent trying to get

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a bite from the local fish when they discovered something

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wild and gruesome on the surface of the lake near

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Sledgehammer Point. They found something wrapped in blankets floating on

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the top of the water. Inside those blankets, they would

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find the body of a faceless woman that had been

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hogtied prior to being placed in the blanket. It was

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unknown how long she had been there, but it was

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apparent the body itself had undergone a startling transformation. In

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a bizarre chemical transformation, the flesh had turned into a

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soap like substance that could be scooped away like ivory soap?

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Who was she? And how did this happen?

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Sub creeps and welcome to Creepy Confidential. Is Mothman really

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a supernatural force predicting impending doom? Did Apollo eleven really

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and a jump from Point Pleasant and the company is

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named Silverbridge.

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The Silverbridge right collapsed in Point Pleasant and.

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flavored coffee usually, but this one had coconut and hazel nut,

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and I had a delightfully paranormal experience while drinking this

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On that one.

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Another side note, The first time I spotted Silverbridge and

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tried it was at Oasis Coffee on the way to

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Hawking Hills. It's an absolute treasure, this little place off

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the side of the road that you'd have coffee flights.

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They are outstanding, a little sweet, but oh so fun.

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kiss for sitting in there and having a cup of Joe.

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Just another little shout out for a local spot. If

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you're around us. The link to Silverbridge will be on

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our socials and sites pinned to the top. Give this

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one a try. Creeps, they ship and they're local to

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hear in Ohio, so absolutely creeptastic.

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Now onto the show Subcreeps.

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Today's case file is one that caught my eye when

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I was the lead as a paranormal investigator in two

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thousand and eight. I was living in Silverdale, Washington and

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our team was researching local haunted locations. The Lady of

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the Lake is not your run of the mill murder investigation.

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As the creep Nation knows by now, when we cover

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true crime, it has to have a little extra, something odd.

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As the Great Molder once said, let's just say this

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case has a distinct smell to it, a certain paranormal bouquet.

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This case checks all the boxes murder, deceit, claims of

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a haunting, and of course, the scientific creepy cherry on

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the top of this case is the human remains that

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were discovered years later completely subpontified due to the perfect

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conditions of the gorgeous surroundings of Lake Crescent. So hold

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on to your hats, because this one is an interesting one.

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The serene Lake Crescent is located deep in the Olympic Peninsula,

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among the deep green and lush moss surroundings of the

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Olympic Mountains.

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It's postcard worthy.

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It's stunning, I'm telling you. And yet this place when

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you're there, and actually when you're hiking up in that area,

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I don't know who else might have been out there,

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but I'm telling you, it also has an eerie and

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haunting feeling, like when the sun's behind the clouds, it's chilly,

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and the misty rain covers everything in this kind of

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watery blanket. The lake itself has a presence when you

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approach it, and oddly, it has no smell of algae

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like an average lake. Like you walk up to your

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run of the lake, you can kind of smell it

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before you're at the edge.

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Of the lake.

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When you put your hands in the water of Lake Crescent,

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it's glacier cold, and it is crystal clear, no floaties, nothing,

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and it almost seems blue. And this is all caused

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by a lack of nitrogen in the water, which inhibits

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the growth of algae and other bacterias that we usually

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encounter at a normal lake. Now remember all that information

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for what is to come. Now to this day, the

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Great Natives claim that the lake is a living bee,

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and sometimes a malicious one. Local tails state that the

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column refuse to cross the glacier carved lake by canoe

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because evil spirits would snatch them to the icy depths.

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For years, the locals claim the lake actually had no

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bottom at all, and some even swore that they spotted

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sea monsters in the bright blue ripples. A piece of

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native legend states Lake Crescent was created by the god

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of Storm King. Angered by the fighting between the Clellum

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and the Quilli Hoot tribes, he hurled a boulder at them,

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killing the warriors. The lake is said to still hold

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the spirits of those souls, and that the lake will

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never let them go. Upon this discovery, it is apparent

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that Lake Crescent has an interesting long history, even before

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the tragic events of the Lady of the Lake. Halle

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Latham Illingworth was born in Kentucky January eighth, nineteen o one,

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to a hard working farm couple in Greenville, Kentucky. After

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two failed marriages, she had moved to the Olympic Peninsula

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about three years earlier. As a young adult, Hallie repeatedly

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moved west, searching for a better life. She ended up

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working at the Lake Crescent Tavern known now as the

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Lake Crescent Lodge and is still there to this day,

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by the way, and this is where she met Montgomery

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Jay Illingworth, known around town as Monty. He was a

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beer truck driver and a known ladies man.

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What I don't understand is what was what was the appeal?

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Right?

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Why? Uh? Anyway?

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I just think about that part, you know, like people

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are getting bad relationships, I mean love bit in bad

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relationships with why if you.

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Know that, stay away?

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But the two met at the tavern and he would

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become her third husband in hopes that he would be

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the one. They were married June sixteenth, nineteen thirty six,

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and from the beginning the two had a volatile relationship.

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Five months into their marriage, the couple would get into

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a fight just before dawn that was so fierce that

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the police had to be called to break it up.

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Hallie shut up for work at the restaurant with bruises

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on her face and arms and sometimes even black eyes. Then,

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shortly before Christmas in nineteen thirty seven, she suddenly went missing.

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She didn't show up for her shift at work, and

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no one heard from her. He had told friends and

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family that she had run off with another man, but

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months went by where her family had not heard from

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her nor seen her. Monty doubled down and stated she

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was indeed still alive, and gave a date of when

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he had supposedly seen her last. Apparently unbothered by his

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wife's disappearance, he packed up and moved to Long Beach, California,

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with a woman named Eleanor Pearson, who just happened to

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be the daughter of a very wealthy timber magnet, which

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was and is a big business up in that area.

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He had met her in Poor Angelis and reportedly he

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was seeing her romantically prior.

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To Hallie's disappearance.

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With all that, he even filed for divorce, and as

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if the circumstances weren't suspicious already, he stated incompatibility on

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the divorce papers, not desertion. Almost three years had gone

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by when on July sixth, nineteen forty two men were

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fishing near Sledgehammer Point when they noticed something large and

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oddly shaped floating on the surface. They would find a

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gruesome discovery. The large floating object was blankets, and inside

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of those blankets were the.

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Remains of a woman.

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She had been hogtied with heavy rope, and it was

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apparent she had been strangled. The corpse was wearing a

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green wool dress, undergarments and silk stockings. The most startling

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part of this discovery of the woman's body was the

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actual condition of her body. Her date and time of

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death was unknown. However, the body had undergone a bizarre transformation.

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The entirety of her flesh had turned into a soap

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like substance that could be literally scooped away like putty.

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Her body was taken into Port Angelis, where a young

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medical student named Harlan McNutt examined the body. He noted

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on his exam that the upper part of the face,

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upper lip, and nose were gone. Her hands had been

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exposed in the water, so the tips of the fingers

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were gone. There was no way to get fingerprints and

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no way to tell what this poor woman had originally

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looked like. The dead woman's flesh had turned to something

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like ivory soap, McNutt said later, describing a condition known

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as supontification. The soap like condition had been a result

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of the minerals present in Lake Crescents water, and that

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it had interacted with the fats in the woman's body.

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The lake's near freezing temperatures had virtually refrigerated the corpse perfectly,

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aside from the parts that were exposed to the air.

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The visual inspection of the body and a subsequent autopsy

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showed that the soap lady had met a violent death.

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Her neck was bruised and discolored and showed evidence of extensive.

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Hemorrhage, meaning she had been strangled.

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Sadly, there was little to try and make identification. However,

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the body had a distinct upper dental plate, one thing

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the killer clearly missed, as this would be the clue

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that led them to said killer. A chart was made

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of the woman's dental plate and advertised in professional journals. Shockingly,

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a dentist from South Dakota came forward and was able

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to identify the lady of the Lake by the plate

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he had made for her, and it was indeed the

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missing Halle Illingworth Hollis Fult's criminologist from the Washington State

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Attorney General's Office, who was helping with the case, suspected

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Monty of this violent crime, but that it was not premeditated.

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Halle and Monty most likely got into a fight at

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their apartment on that cold December night in nineteen thirty seven.

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The fight then escalated and it turned violent, and Monty

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brutally beat and strangled Halle to death. Fults also believed

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that Monty trying to conceal what he had done by

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placing the corpse in the trunk of his car and

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then drove to Lake Crescent. He then stopped to use

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some rope from the boat house and resort so that

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he could wrap and maybe tie the bundle with said rope.

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Monty then put Halle's body into a rowboat, attached weights

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to the bundle, and rolled out into the deep water,

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and in she went. The rumor around the water cooler

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was that Monty did not act alone. However, that was

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never proven. The law caught up with Monty in Long Beach, California,

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on October twenty sixth, nineteen forty one, and he was

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charged with murder. He was brought back to Port Angelus

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and put on trial. The nine day trial began February

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twenty fourth, nineteen forty two, and was so sensational that

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it was competing with the news from the front lines

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of World War II. Monty's defense was that the body

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of the woman found was not Halle, and she was

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still alive and he had seen her on this specific date.

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Halle's friends were able to identify items of clothing that

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were found on the dead woman as Halle's. Of all this, though,

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the key evidence was the rope. Monty had borrowed fifty

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feet of rope from a storekeeper at the lake and

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the store still had remnants of that rope. The fibers

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or a direct match. After just four hours of deliberation,

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on March fifth, nineteen forty two, the jury found him

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guilty of second degree murder. He was sentenced to life

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imprisonment at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla, Walla. However,

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he would only serve nine years when he was paroled

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and released in nineteen fifty one. Hallie was originally buried

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as a Jane Doe at Ocean View Cemetery in Port

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Angelis and then was moved to her final resting place

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at Park Hill Cemetery in Vancouver, Washington, January twenty fourth,

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nineteen forty two, in an unmarked grave.

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As for the.

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Paranormal investigation that I mentioned that was conducted around Lake

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Crescent near the lodge, no anomalies were found, no EVPs, captured,

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no spikes in emf However, as my fellow investigators know,

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it could have just been a quiet day. This place

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had a vibe. I'm not usually the touchy feely type

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of investigator, but it did overcast, missing, foggy, and the

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site of the lodge and the small ramps used for

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rowboats was eerie. One could imagine the site of Monty

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loading the hog tide limp remains into a robot and

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casting off into the foggy nine, only to return with

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an empty boat and some extra rope. Thank you for

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tuning in for episode thirty one, Lady of the Lake.

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