The Midway Photo: How One Frozen Figure Solved A Murder
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The Midway Photo: How One Frozen Figure Solved A Murder
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A single five-by-seven contact print from August 14, 1937 shows roughly 400 moving people and one motionless young woman pressed between a wheel-game booth and a canvas partition - she had been dead for approximately four hours. How did an insurance photographer’s routine crowd shot become the central evidence in a 1938 murder trial, and what did it reveal about the summers before the murder?
In this episode, we tell the story contained in that photograph and the investigation that followed. You will hear how the image sat undeveloped in an insurance file for three days, the discovery of the body behind a canvas partition, and the questions that image forced investigators to answer.
Person: Patricia Johnson
Date: August 14, 1937
Location: Millhaven fairgrounds, Millhaven, Indiana
Status: Found deceased behind a canvas partition
Investigator: Detective Sergeant Bruce Carter, Indiana State Police, Indianapolis field office
- The photograph was a five-by-seven contact print showing roughly 400 people moving while one woman remained perfectly still.
- Patricia Johnson was twenty-three years old at the time of her death.
- The image sat undeveloped in Howard Vick’s insurance file for three days after he shot six exposures from the Ferris wheel housing.
- Curtis York discovered Patricia’s body on Tuesday, August 17, while performing post-fair privy inspections.
- Bruising on Patricia’s throat and neck was consistent with sustained compression and her lower body was covered with a section of cut canvas tarpaulin.
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