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The Shocking Story of Helmuth Schmidt

Michigan's Original Lonely-hearts Killer

Tobin T. Buhk
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Duration
6h 29m
Year
2025
Language
English

About

In the fall of 1916, New York housemaid Augusta Steinbach fell in love with a man she met through a matrimonial advertisement in her local newspaper. She traveled to Detroit to marry her correspondent, but in March 1917, she mysteriously disappeared. What began as a routine search for a missing person turned into a baffling case of deception, bigamy and murder. Follow detectives as they unravel the tangled web spun by Michigan's original lonely hearts killer-a criminal mastermind the Detroit News dubbed "one of America's master outlaws."

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