One family above all others remains tangled up in Decatur’s past. The Morrises were considered the village darlings, but that all came to an end in September of 1879. In one foul swoop, their lives were snuffed out and the murderer lost to the pages of history. With the sheer number of suspects involved, this case remains unsolved–even over a century later.

 

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