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Bedrooms on the second floor had been ransacked, pointing at robbery as a motive. But police were puzzled when they found several hundred dollars in an envelope on a dressing table and a jewelry box filled with pearls, diamonds, gold chains, and bracelets.
The case that would become known as the “Milk Bottle Murder” started on Feb. 25, 1941, when a mysterious item appeared on the porch of Samples’ tidy bungalow in Memphis, Tenn.