Case File: Dr. Harvey Burdell
Overview
In 1927 a student of music and a member of the Mendelsohn Chorus was brutally killed just feet from her sisters home where she was staying. A small down girl, she had only returned two Minneapolis two weeks prior - having spent the previous year in college before going home in Pelican Rapids for part of the summer. She wasn't found until later in the afternoon when neighborhood boys were playign hide-and-seek, and one dodged into a shed to hid, but instead stumbled over the body of Pearl Osten.
Locations
- 31 Bond St, New York City, NY - home of Dr. Harvey Burdell
Gallery
People
| Type | Name | (Born-Died) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victim | Burdell, Dr. Harvey | ?-1856 | beaten and strangled |
| Suspects | Cunningham, Mrs. | landlady | |
| Snodgrass, Mr. | resident at 31 Bond St. | ||
| Witnesses | Burchell, John J. | boy who discovered the body | |
| Bulen, Mr. | brother-in-law to Mr. Snodgrass | ||
| Hannah | cook at 31 Bond St. | ||
| Officers & Investigators | Connery, Dr. | Coroner | |
| Francis, Dr. | conducted initial post mortem | ||
| Family | |||
Documentation
Burials
Newspaper Articles
- 12 Dec 1856 (New York Times): Bogus Insurance Company, Brooklyn, testimony by Dr. Harvey Burdell
- 1 Feb 1857 (New York Daily Herald): Horrible and Mysterious Murder in Bond Street
- 27 Nov 1904 (The Inter Ocean, Chicago): The Murdell Murder, A Mystery of the Century