Woman was found half-burnt and said it was her doing. Her haunting final words suggest otherwise

Woman was found half-burnt and said it was her doing. Her haunting final words suggest otherwise

In 1928, police at the Lake Bluff Police Station would discover a severely burnt woman by the name of Elfrieda Knaak in the station furnace room. Evidently she had either been put in the furnace by someone or climbed in there herself. She was still alive but terribly injured and what she was saying made little sense to the officers who discovered her. One cold morning on October 30. 1928, a municipal worker by the name of Chris Louis ventured do…