Was Marie Rogêt Murdered by Edgar Allan Poe?

Oh, cue all the “She deserved it, flaunting around Poe like that” comments… this *is* the internet, after all…. in 3….2…1..

Is it just me, or did the article make no sense at all? It’s poorly written and gives no evidence at all that Poe was involved in any way. What kind of bizarre post is this?

Hm – from what I understood, it’s basically this: 1) Marie Roget was murdered. 2) Poe wrote a story about it with details that are suspiciously accurate. 3) Hence the hypothesis that he’s the actual murderer.

But, wasn’t it Mary Rogers that was actually murdered, and Marie Roget a fictional character? I was also confused as to what I was reading.

Click on the author’s name and you will discover that: “PATRICK BERNAUW is a full time Flemish writer of historical mysteries, faction and fiction, supernatural stories and fantasy novels.”

This must have been a piece of his “faction” writing.

Strikes me as more of a case of him building his story around the facts of a sensational case of the time. Sort of Victorian version of the way shows like Law and Order and C.S.I. sometimes do “ripped from the headlines” plots on their shows.

Sounds to me like Poe liked spooky stuff and a story like Mary Rogers’s, with all the sex and murder and mystery, probably really grabbed his attention. He realized that other people might be fascinated by the story too, and fictionalized it a bit here and there and made money off of it.

I didn’t see anything in the article that was damning evidence against Poe. Knowing a lot about a case and giving a case a lot of thought means he found it interesting enough to follow the case intently in the news and such, not that he was a killer.

Alas, the link went to one of those awful sites that do not load right away because the obnoxious ad is loading, the one that yells, “CONGRATULATIONS!”
I always instantly exit those, so I guess I’ll never know. : (