Prison City Murders – Case 13 – Coffins in a Bottle

June 15th, 1929. Fort Riley, Kansas. Mrs. Zenana Shepard, wife of Army doctor Major Charles A. Shepard, lies severely ill at the Army Hospital. Her life cannot be saved. Unsure of the cause of death, doctors at the hospital ask for Dr. Shepard’s consent to do an autopsy. He refuses, saying that his wife would not want to be mutilated. The commanding general at Fort Riley intervenes. Zenana’s organs and fluids are preserved for analysis. Sources: https://denverpost.newsbank.com/ https://www.star-telegram.comhttps://newspaperarchive.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.newspapers.com/search/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1164/rccm.201501-0135OE https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/290/96/ https://livebrooks.com/about-us/history/ https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/10/22/mercury-was-considered-a-cure-until-it-killed-you.html https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/coffins-in-a-bottle https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/flappers https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/290/96.html Thank you for listening. Until next week, please don’t murder anybody. I don’t think you can listen to podcasts behind bars. You can comment or ask questions below or email me at [email protected].