A Violent Vacancy: The 1902 Disappearance of Nora Fuller

On January 11, 1902, 15-year-old Nora Fuller responded to a nanny wanted advertisement in the San Francisco Examiner. She called her family an hour later, saying that she was hired and at the man’s home. When Nora never returned home, her brother visited the address to find it was a vacant lot. 

Sources:

Dowd, Katie. “A want ad leads to an empty house–and a shocking murder that rocked San Francisco.” SFGATE. 17 October, 2016. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Nora-Fuller-missing-San-Francisco-murder-history-9970198.php

Duke, Thomas Samuel. Celebrated Criminal Cases of America (San Francisco: The John H. Barry Company, 1910).

Katz, Elena. Cold Cases: Famous Unsolved Mysteries, Crimes, and Disappearances in America. (Bloombury Publishing, 2010).

Whittman, George W.  “Charles B. Hadley,” Tarrant County College Archives , accessed January 2, 2025, https://tccarchives.omeka.net/items/show/40.

Newspapers: 

San Francisco Call

San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner

Music: Credits to Holizna, Fesilyan Studios & Virginia Liston

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