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The Hand in the Ice: How a Boardinghouse Murder Became Confession

The Hand in the Ice: How a Boardinghouse Murder Became Confession

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The Hand in the Ice: How a Boardinghouse Murder Became Confession

A human hand projected straight up through fourteen inches of ice on Coldwater Lake, fingers bare and an arm angled as if the body had been placed standing on its head. A barn latch showed bright fresh scoring, a grain bucket sat full and untouched, and one man would later confess - but Teresa Patterson's body would never be recovered; who put her in the lake, and why did the evidence travel across three counties only to melt away?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from Teresa Patterson's disappearance on November 8 through the discovery on November 14, following the observations made at the lake and at the Brierton Boarding House, and asking how a thirty-one-year-old woman with only a notebook pieced together the clues that led to a confession.

Person: Teresa Patterson
Date: November 14, 1893 (body recovered)
Location: Coldwater Lake
Age: 54
Investigator: Linda Hansen, 31

- The body was suspended vertically, head down, roughly four feet beneath the surface in ice fourteen inches thick.
- Teresa had been missing for six days before her body was found in the ice.
- Dr. Miles Pruett noted a single fracture at the back of the skull indicating she was dead before entering the water.
- The stable grain bucket was found full and undisturbed when James Aldrich checked at 6:30 AM on November 9.
- The stable door latch showed fresh scoring consistent with a tool inserted from the outside when Linda Hansen examined it on November 15.

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