
That’s right, Laura Palmer - and her tragic and watery demise - was inspired by Hazel Drew.
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One of those boys, a young Mark Frost, grew up to be the novelist and TV writer/producer who co-created the show “Twin Peaks” with David Lynch. One of the people who kept the legend alive was Betty Calhoun, a Taborton resident who used the violent murder to spin a cautionary tale of a ghostly young woman who haunted the surrounding woods, the better to keep her grandsons out of them when they visited during the summers.


It all reached a fever pitch until, with a story now endlessly convoluted and the mystery still unsolved, people lost interest, the stories dwindled, and Hazel Drew took her place in local folklore.

The public’s attention was rapt and the media was more than happy to supply every minute detail of the case. The increasingly darker tale soon involved alleged sex parties, political corruption, double lives, missing suitcases, nighttime dentistry and doomed love affairs. And “no clues” soon turned into an overabundance of clues, often both confusing and conflicting, as well as a rogues’ gallery of suspects, people of interest and related parties up and down the social strata. What followed was several weeks of intense and sensationalistic daily coverage, both here and in New York City newspapers and even elsewhere throughout the country. “Officials Are Completely Baffled, As No Clues of Any Value Can Be Found”
