EPISODE 5: DEATH AT THE WINDMILL

In this episode, Paul and Kate explore the death of 34-year-old Lee Camp from Hanford, CA. In 1924, Camp appears to have fallen from the roof of a windmill on his foster parents’ ranch, but a subsequent autopsy shows that may not be what killed him.

Sources:

“Suit Starts Over Estate of Hanford Death Victim,” Stockton Independent, Volume 128, Number 81, 22 April 1925 (PRIVATE DATABASE—subscription needed) 

 “Windmill Murder Case,” Oakland Tribune, Sunday, September 10, 1933 (PRIVATE DATABASE) 

 All other case information comes from carton 69, folder 39-40, People v. Jennie L. Brown (for death of Lee Camp in Hanford, Calif.) 1925 in the Edward Oscar Heinrich Papers at University of California at Berkeley.