Wallingford’s 'Shoebox Murder' to be Featured on New Ghost-Hunting TV Show

WALLINGFORD, CT — Ghost Hunters Amy Bruni and Adam Berry will feature Wallingford’s unsolved “Shoebox Murder” from 1886 on their new TLC show “Kindred Spirits” this week, according to the Meriden Record-Journal.

Crews filmed portions of the episode, which will air on Friday, Oct. 28 at 10 p.m., in Wallingford in late July.

Kindred Spirits Executive Producer Alan LaGarde told the Record-Journal that the Shoebox Murder Case is “one of the best ghost stories in history.”

On the morning of Aug. 8, 1886, a man who was walking his dog in the Parker Farm district of Wallingford near the Cheshire town line found a shoe box with the remains of a man’s body wrapped in tarred paper, according to ConnecticutHistory.org. The corpse was missing its arms, legs and head.

There were many theories as to the identity of the victim, ranging from a Durham man who went missing (but later turned up alive) after supposedly taking a $1,500 pension from a local slaughterhouse, to a person responsible for a rash of fires that plagued the town in previous weeks, according to the website.

The case, which had several other leads that went cold, drew national attention and remains unsolved to this day.

Read more about the Shoebox Murder at ConnecticutHistory.org here.

For more on the "Kindred Spirits" episode featuring the case and Wallingford, visit the Meriden Record-Journal here.

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