Murders In The Rue Morgue - Luciana and Mariana H.

The Most Terrible Murder Ever

At last we have the answer to the brutal Rue Morgue muders. The two women were killed by an orang-outang. It belonged to a French sailor. The animal escaped from his owner and runaway on the street with a razor. It saw the light of Madame L'Espanaye's room. Then, the ape climbed up the lightning rod on the wall outside and took hold of the open shutter with both hands. After that, it pusherd both feet against the wall and swung itself into the room through the open window. The sailor followed it, and he saw everything.

The orang-outang killed Madame L'Espanaye. With the razor, it cut her head off her body and killed her daughter too. Then, it pushed up the dead body of the daugher up to the chimney.

Finally, it escaped by the same way it entered.