On July 2, 1951, Pansy Carpenter, a St. Petersburg resident, went to send a telegram to her 67-year-old neighbor, Mary Hardy Reeser, on July 2, 1951. She called the cops after discovering the doorknob to the flat at 1200 Cherry Street was hot to the touch. The horror they discovered in that flat sparked an investigation that would last decades.
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