On August 26, 1893, 20-year-old Anna "Annie" Wiese was over at Aurthur Hill's home in the Vienna Township, where they both lived. The two were friends and she left the home around 10 p.m. and walked home in the bright moonlight. Someone was hiding in the shadows and took their chance to attack her.
The person or persons who attacked her both clubbed her around the head, stabbed her several times in the breast in back, and slit her throat almost decapitating her. She fought back and was able to grab a tuft of hair from her assailant. Her screams were heard by her employer's family who lived nearby.
He and his son ran out to save whoever was screaming. When they got to the area she had stopped screaming, but she made a groan and it helped them find her. Unfortunately, she was dead by the time they found her. The killer had fled by the time they reached her.
There were a few suspects in this case. Those include her former boyfriend, her would-be boyfriend, and a woman who despised her.
They soon arrested the young man that was seeing her. He was working as a farmhand in Pocahontas county, and there was resistance from the community he was living. He went through and they soon released him.
Emily Bennet was a neighbor who despised Annie and believed that she was trying to seduce her husband Cyrus and son Arthur. It was known she hated her. She was taken to trial but was acquitted of the crime. It's believed that if the science for solving the crime was better that Emily would have been convicted.
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