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Historical Murders: The Murder of Signe Carlzen

Laura Porritt

On August 11, 1912, 32 year old SIgne Carlzen finished up teaching a music lesson in the  Montclair neighborhood of Denver. At around 8PM she walked towards the streetcar line to take it back to her parent's home where she lived. At 9AM the next day, a farmer discovered her axed and mutilated body on the road towards the streetcar line. Police would arrest and question some 25 suspects, including many of the stranger people to ever walk in Denver.