Approximately 200 yards from my Beacon Hill office, there’s a historical plaque on a building located on North Anderson Street. I previously never realized it was there — and I only vaguely knew about this Beacon Hill murder that has been called the “19th Century OJ Simpson murder trial.”
The story: Dr. George Parkman was a man of regular habits. Every day he could be seen leaving his Walnut Streeet townhouse and start walking through Beacon Hill and Boston’s West End where he owned a number of Beacon Hill rental properties. His daily routine was so predictable that his neighbors said they could set their watches by the sight of his gaunt figure rushing past to collect his rent money and his high interest loans. Every afternoon at 2:00 pm he met his wife for lunch. When he failed to keep this appointment on Friday, November 23, 1849, and did not return home that evening, his family suspected foul play.
Click here to read the full story.
You can also click on the video below and learn how you can take a historical walking tour about the Beacon Hill murder.
Walking Cinema: Murder on Beacon Hill: Introduction from Untravel Media on Vimeo.
