‘I INVESTIGATED MY GREAT GRANDFATHER’S MYSTERIOUS DEATH’
The USA was just emerging from the Great Depression on 3 February 1939 when a Scottish sailor was found fatally injured in New York’s Little Spain area. His injuries aroused enough suspicion for his case to be referred to the city’s medical examiner. The question on everyone’s lips was, “Was it murder?” His family believed the answer to be an unequivocal “Yes”. He was laid to rest in an unmarked grave far from home, but now one of his descendants has investigated his life and suspicious death.
Lockdown hasn’t been all home-schooling, online yoga and baking – many people have been researching their genealogy and looking to publish the results. If you are one of them, Katie Carmichael’s innovative take on a long-standing family mystery, My Great-Grandfather the Alien, may well be of interest.
‘My dad Duncan used to say that Thomas was murdered in New York’
It all started when Katie,
