The Corpse Under the Bed
Listen to the audio version here . Located about thirty miles northwest of Pittsburgh, the borough of Freedom in Beaver County clings to the banks of the Ohio River. It is the home of the Conway Yard, which, in 1956, became the largest freight yard in the world-- a title it held until 1980. When the Pennsylvania Railroad decided to expand the Conway Yard in the early 1950s, it brought an influx of new residents, many of whom were temporary workers who rented apartments and rooms from boarding houses. Freedom's newfound prosperity was a boon for local landlords, but not every landlord made out so well. Such was the case of 53-year-old Olive Mae Headland, whose strange death in the fall of 1956 has never been satisfactorily explained. That's because the lifeless body of Mrs. Headland was found, without a mark, in a rather strange place-- under the bed of one of her tenants. On Tuesday, October 9, 1956, a man walked into the offices of the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph . He asked for...
