Within the bewilder murder inspired “Twin Peaks”

His death inspired the “Twin Peaks” worship program. It is said that his ghost chases the forest where his body was found more than 100 years ago. And yet, Hazel I. Drew is still a mystery.

Drew was a beautiful, vivacious blonde of 19 years old who lived in Troy, New York, when he disappeared near his uncle’s farm on July 7, 1908. The locals saw their body floating in a mill in mills days later.

His death took the nation: journalists of the great apple in the old west covered the case without breath. Was it a suicide? A murder? An accident?

The rumors turned around. A few days before his disappearance, Drew had abruptly left his work as a ruler for a prominent local family. In fact, his acquaintances whispered, Hazel had I have been acting a bit strange lately. It was consorted by many men. He had fallen ill and had left for a month. She had arrived at her dressmaker’s door one evening asking -to make her a new shirt that night for a weekend weekend on Lake George.

The papers printed all sensational claims: Hazel had been pregnant! Hazel was a sex worker! Hazel lived a double life! As if the only way a girl could have killed was if she had asked.

“It was a common topic in crime writing,” said Jerry C. Drake, an official, former history teacher and author of the new book “Hazel was a goodl” (Clash, June 10), who claims to solve Hazel’s murder.

“This type of archetype of the falling woman, but in the case of Hazel, it was absolutely false,” he told The Post. “I wanted to give it justice.”

“Hazel was a good girl,” but he also aims to restore the good name of Hazel, to show the young girl behind the myth, to portray her as different from Laura Palmer, her “twin” doppelganter.

“Entering -I thought that even if I can’t solve his case, I can at least solve his reputation,” said Drake. “I can decopp -Laura Palmer’s and recyrist as who really was.”

Hazel I. Drew was born in 1888, to a large Irish-classist family of working class in Rensselaer County, New York. When he was 14, he moved to Troy, where his aunt, a domestic maid for the city’s well -off, helped Hazel get a job at the home members of the local republican party.

Hazel did not come from the wealth, but he was educated, he described himself as always having his nose in a book, and soon advanced to be a ruler. He enjoyed the privileges that came to work for the upper classes: fine eating, pleasant clothes, opulent environments, access to the best doctors and dentists, as well as a book library. He was alive and curious and eager to experience life.

“He liked the pleasant things,” said Drake. “He would have had available income and spent it in good clothes. He had expensive glasses. He liked to go out with his girlfriends and spend the weekends suffering and going to the amusement park. He traveled to New York City and Boston with friends. But he also went to the church religiously: he would take his dates to the church.”

Its members of his family said he had several suitors and one of his friends mentioned that he was seeing a man working in a dentist’s office. However, Hazel did not seem serious about any of these possible paramours. Their cards were not flirting, but friendly. He mainly seemed worried about having a good time with his girlfriends.

However, it seems that something strange seemed to have Hazel during the months before his death. He had been traveling along the eastern coast. He fell ill and had to call on his uncle’s farm. His friends, family and businessmen had conflicting accounts where he was at a given time.

His mother, who later hired a psychic to help solve Hazel’s death, said he believed that someone “had to” had “Hazel in his control.”

The district’s lawyer investigating the case sought to govern it as suicide, but the autopsy showed the opposite. Hazel had not drowned, the doctors revealed, but had died at once at the back of the head. Someone had hit or dropped her and hit her head, and then turned her into the river. The locals wrote letters claiming to have resolved the slaughter in their dreams. Someone stated that there was hypnosis.

“It was very” Twin Peaks, “Drake said.” But unfortunately, Hazel did not have a Dale Cooper officer who helped him. “

One month in the Russian mountain research, however, the DA closed the case. The press, formerly in a frenzy about who killed Hazel Drew, moved to the next dead blonde. Even after his story forced Mark Frost, whose grandmother grew to Troy, to write “Twin Peaks” with David Lynch, Hazel rarely presented himself.

Drake loved the “Twin Peaks” and obsessed with unresolved mysteries when he was in the air. And yet, he had never heard Hazel’s name until he appeared in a dream in 2019. In the dream, his friend, who had just moved to Troy, handed him a book, and inside was a book plate that reads “Ex Libris Hazel I. Drew”.

When he woke up, he wrote the name and later went. He found a podcast about the legend of Hazel Drew and a brief post from the site found a tomb that said Hazel’s story had inspired “Twin Peaks”.

“It was simply like,” well, I’m obsessed with that, “he recalled.” I love David Lynch, I love this program, I love ghosts and mysteries, and my friend now lives in this city, so I liked it, I’m going to take the week, my wife and I will go to Troy. “

Then things became weird. Hazel appeared in dreams: presenting it to a family member as a boy “working in my case” or bringing him to a coffee. He experienced several chilling presences for his grave, including a rock thrown outside the site. Airbnb woke up in Troy after one of his dreams about her to find a black raven in his room.

However, Drake said that none of these cases dissuaded him to pursue his research, but only pushed him.

“My feeling was that he is a person who had unfinished business,” he said. “They say ghosts want their mistakes to run, and maybe shout from the other side for people who think they can do it.”

He said he is confident that he has named his killer: he read the book to find out who, even if he does not have the definitive smoking gun. “I hope it stimulates people to ask rational questions about their killer,” he said, and maybe even giving the ghost of Hazel a peace and justice.

“That’s why I ended up calling the book” Hazel was a good girl, “because everyone said it,” he said. “Her mother says that doctors say it, it is, it is, there is even a clip on the cover … So I thought,” I will only give her, she, her good name. “