Little Lord Fauntleroy
Little Lord Fauntleroy
On March 8, 1921, the body of a young boy was found in some water behind the O’Laughlin Quarry in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. He was believed to be between five and seven years old and had been struck on the head with a blunt instrument.
Five weeks before the boy was discovered, a quarry employee reported that a couple had stopped by in a vehicle to ask if he’d seen a young boy, and the woman appeared to be crying. In spite of this, no one ever came forward to claim the boy’s body, even after a reward was offered for information. Curiously, the boy was dressed in upscale clothing, suggesting that he hailed from a wealthy family. Since the victim bore a resemblance to the title character in Francis Hodgson Burnett’s famous children’s novel, he was nicknamed “Little Lord Fauntleroy.”
The case remained cold for 28 years, till a connection was made between Little Lord Fauntleroy and Homer Lemay, a six-year-old Milwaukee child who seemed to disappear in 1921. Homer’s father, Edmond Lemay, claimed that after Homer’s mother died of tuberculosis, he left his son in the custody of a couple named the Nortons. According to Edmond, the Nortons took Homer on a trip to Argentina, where he was subsequently killed in a car accident. However, an investigation could uncover no record of Homer Lemay’s accident or any evidence that the Nortons even existed.
Further suspicion surrounded Edmond Lemay because his third wife mysteriously disappeared in 1948, and he faced legal trouble for forging her signature on some checks. However, no definitive evidence was ever found to connect Homer Lemay to the Little Lord Fauntleroy case, so the mystery remains unsolved nearly a century later.
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On March 8, 1921, the body of a young boy was found in some water behind the O’Laughlin Quarry in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. He was believed to be between five and seven years old and had been struck on the head with a blunt instrument.
Five weeks before the boy was discovered, a quarry employee reported that a couple had stopped by in a vehicle to ask if he’d seen a young boy, and the woman appeared to be crying. In spite of this, no one ever came forward to claim the boy’s body, even after a reward was offered for information. Curiously, the boy was dressed in upscale clothing, suggesting that he hailed from a wealthy family. Since the victim bore a resemblance to the title character in Francis Hodgson Burnett’s famous children’s novel, he was nicknamed “Little Lord Fauntleroy.”
The case remained cold for 28 years, till a connection was made between Little Lord Fauntleroy and Homer Lemay, a six-year-old Milwaukee child who seemed to disappear in 1921. Homer’s father, Edmond Lemay, claimed that after Homer’s mother died of tuberculosis, he left his son in the custody of a couple named the Nortons. According to Edmond, the Nortons took Homer on a trip to Argentina, where he was subsequently killed in a car accident. However, an investigation could uncover no record of Homer Lemay’s accident or any evidence that the Nortons even existed.
Further suspicion surrounded Edmond Lemay because his third wife mysteriously disappeared in 1948, and he faced legal trouble for forging her signature on some checks. However, no definitive evidence was ever found to connect Homer Lemay to the Little Lord Fauntleroy case, so the mystery remains unsolved nearly a century later.
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