Inquest of Lunacy: The 1907 Murder of Dorothea Sindlinger

A delusional Civil War veteran claimed divine voices commanded a horrific crime. Simon Sindlinger Jr. (1841-1915) was born in Mötzingen, Württemberg, Germany on October 28, 1841. As a young child Simon Sindlinger Jr. emigrated with his parents across the Atlantic to the United States around 1847, eventually settling in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where his fatherContinue reading “Inquest of Lunacy: The 1907 Murder of Dorothea Sindlinger”