This is the sixth in a series.

During the summer of 1922, Burlington County detective Ellis Parker was gaining national attention as he prepared for the trial on the murder of a well-known circus owner at the hands of his wife and her brother.

On Aug. 14, events would drag him away from that case to help with another. The Lakewood Citizen reported, “On Monday morning, the little village of Lakehurst was stirred into a fever of excitement when it became known that William Giberson, a prominent resident of that place, had been…