This is the 11th in a series.

In May 1930, two sailors were found dead in a Lakehurst, N.J. apartment from a beating and gunshot wounds. At first the widow of one of them, Hattie Evans, told a story of a drunken battle leading to murder and suicide.

Burlington County Detective Ellis Parker was asked to help get to the truth, and at once he began finding holes in the widow’s story. He later remembered “There was only one set of events that would fit all the evidence we had, and that one set was this, the murderer had taken…