Dr. William K. Dean, 63, a prominent resident of Jaffrey, New Hampshire, was found at the bottom of a cistern one morning in August 1918, bludgeoned and garroted to death.
No one was ever charged in the murder, although theories abounded — including one having to do with a mysterious errand Dean sent a woman on, to go to Boston to get federal authorities to come to town to investigate alleged German activities there. (It was during World War I.)
Dr. William K. Dean, 63, a prominent resident of Jaffrey, New Hampshire, was found at the bottom of a cistern one morning in August 1918, bludgeoned and garroted to death.
No one was ever charged in the murder, although theories abounded — including one having to do with a mysterious errand Dean sent a woman on, to go to Boston to get federal authorities to come to town to investigate alleged German activities there. (It was during World War I.)…
