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Title	Murdered spouses, Manhattan, Indiana
Alternative Title	Murdered spouses; Murdered spouse;
Genre	Legend -- People
Description	Monty Records' transcribed interview of Virginia Craft Spelbring about murdered spouses in Manhattan, Indiana. According to Spelbring, a man named Mulnex lived in Manhattan, Indiana, and was convicted of murdering his wife. Mulnex maintained his innocence, but he was still hanged for the crime.
Informant	Spelbring, Virginia Craft
Collector	Records, Monty
Date of Original	1991-08-12
Contextual Information	Years after Mulnex was hanged for this crime, a man from Texas made a death bed confession to murdering Mulnex's wife. The man was a rejected suitor who was jealous and killed the girl.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Putnam County -- Manhattan -- 1991
Subject	Legends People Homicides Spouses Murder victims
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-06-14
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2011 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-MurderedSpouses007

Murdered spouses, Manhattan, Indiana

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