When Margaret Meg Purk was found dead in Ohio in 1985, her husband told detectives that his pregnant wife had died by suicide. Though investigators back then had an inkling that there was something amiss about the case, they didn’t know that it would take decades for the truth about the young woman s untimely death to emerge or that it would come from the grave.
On the morning of March 18, 1985, Scott Purk called emergency services to his Akron, Ohio home, claiming his wife had tried to kill herself. When emergency responders arrived at the scene, they found 24-years-old Meg Purk, who was 9 months pregnant, laying at the base of her stairs with a rope around her neck. She had no heartbeat and no pulse, but they were able to revive her and send her to the hospital.