It was August 26, 1893 at 10 p.m. when three heartwrenching screams split the peaceful summer night near the small community of Green Mountain, Iowa. Anna Wiese, a young woman between 20 and 22 years of age, was found brutally murdered, her body lying in a grassy ditch at the side of a country road. She had multiple stab wounds upon her body, but the cause of death was the ear to ear slit across her throat.
Anna's murder, despite an extensive manhunt and two trials, remains unsolved nearly 115 years later. Her story is told yearly within surrounding community newspapers and unknown visitors go to her grave to leave multitudes of coins in the hope that Anna will remain at rest. Her epitaph states "Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord" and is the legacy of her death.
Editors note: Above info provided by Christina M. Schumacher.
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