LAURA PALMER REALLY EXISTED. HER NAME WAS HAZEL DREW AND SHE WAS MURDERED MYSTERIOUSLY. In the summer of 1908, the murder of Hazel Drew shocked upstate New York. The mutilated body of a twenty-year-old girl was found in a pond, and the more investigators looked into her background, habits and surroundings, the more incomprehensible the story became... The unsolved murder gave rise to rumors, speculation, ghost stories and, almost a century later, the phenomenon of the TV series Twin Peaks. One of the series' writers, Mark Frost, brought to life the character of Hazel Drew, whom he often heard about from his grandparents as a child, as Laura Palmer...Who Killed Hazel Drew? Like Laura Palmer, she was a mysterious girl leading a double life. David Bushman and Mark Givens are re-investigating her case - and naming the names of her likely killers. The story of a girl drowned in Teal's Pond turns into a grandiose canvas of strange relatives, unreliable witnesses, a corrupt metropolis and influential officials involved in the story. A brilliantly researched investigation into a murder mystery that inspired one of the most important cultural phenomena in film and television history. “In David Bushman and Mark Givens's meticulously researched book, Laura Palmer's doppelgänger is Hazel Drew, a young beauty with dark secrets found dead in a pond near Albany in 1908. One hundred and fifteen years later, Bushman and Givens, step by step, suspect by suspect, solve the mystery of her unsolved murder." – Vanity Fair “Who killed twenty-year-old Hazel Drew and left her body in a pond in upstate New York in 1908? In this action-packed crime novel, Bushman and Givens investigate the murder that inspired the iconic television series Twin Peaks. The authors effectively summarize five years of research using a range of sources and paint a compelling picture of events that makes readers feel like they are watching events in real time." – Publishers Weekly