Before Twin Peaks and the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer changed television forever, there was a true 1908 crime thats eerily similar to the events of the series. One of the things that makes Twin Peaks one of the best TV shows of its era is how it helped to transform the crime genre. The complex presentation of Laura, the murder victim, defies the misogynistic, polarized perceptions of women that crime fiction and true crime alike are prone to perpetuate.

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