everything is hard to list, impossible to categorize-PART 3

everything is hard to list, impossible to categorize-PART 3

fiction
edward w pritchard

Urban myths continued:

Another interesting urban myth is the plight of poor Mrs. Purlson. Her husband wants to kill her and only you can rescue her. Or, is it too late; the deed is done and Manford Purlson, the husband has already gotten away with murder. He killed his wife. You have found her secret letters but you don't know where they lived to report the murders. In other variations of the story you have found the letters but aren't sure if the murder just happened, or was it one hundred years ago?

Typically the story involves someone finding secret letters. Written in blue ink by hand on fine stationary paper. Often the finder has been duped and he or she really finds letters in an old brick fence or in the rafters of a condemned house. Of course the papers have been planted by someone to perpetuate the urban myth. Police, librarians and reporters cringe when the crime is reported. Murder! Across America from the early 1970's to now over six hundred killings of Mrs. Purlson has been dutifully reported.

Sometimes Mrs. Purlson gets her revenge and the letters found are from Mr Purlson, Manford, and he fears his wife is plotting to do him in soon. Married couples beware! You may suffer the plight of poor Mrs. Purlson or occassionally perhaps that of Manford Purlson. You spouse is plotting to kill you. Proceed with caution, you may be married to a murderer.
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Urban myths and legends: part two husbands who plot to kill their wives, and vice versa