Notorious Bakersfield

UNSOLVED: The Mysterious Death of Augustus | E191

Robert Petersen

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In the final summer of the Roaring Twenties, just weeks before the stock market crash would shatter the nation’s confidence, a quiet and disheveled stranger wandered into Bakersfield. Within hours, that man—49-year-old Augustus Mahillon—would become the center of a baffling mystery involving hidden wealth, false identities, and a death that remains unsolved nearly a century later.

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