The Mystery of Marie Rogêt, Murdered By Edgar Allan Poe
Was Edgar Allan Poe not only a brilliant author, but also a demonic killer who wrote The Mystery of Marie Roget, to boast about the crime he committed?
In July 1841, in Castle Point, Hoboken, the dead body of a beautiful brunette was found. The name of the 21 year old girl was Mary Cecilia Rogers. She had been horribly outraged and brutally violated. In the following year, Edgar Allan Poe's “Mystery of Marie Rogêt” was published in Snowden's Ladies Companion. “The extraordinary details which I am now called upon to make public,” he wrote, “will be recognized by all readers in the late murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers, at New York.” After his “article” about “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, Poe wrote again a true crime story, with his “friend, the Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin” solving the mystery.
Poe situated his story in Paris and changed the Hudson in the Seine and Mary Rogers in Marie Rogêt, but he indeed followed the facts of the murder of Mary Rogers and argued that the girl was murdered by an individual, not by a gang, and that this person was well-dressed, had a “dark complexion” and was “a young naval officer, notorious for its excesses”. At this point, the author who was known for his brilliant pointes, ended his “article” with a cheap trick: the publisher found it inappropriate to reveal the identity of the man with the dark complexion, who was once admitted to the military academy of West Point and got fired because of his excesses, and who could only be Edgar Allan Poe himself. Poe had probably met Mary Cecilia Rogers in a bookseller shop on Broadway, near the tobacco-store where she worked. In 1837, Edgar Poe rented a few rooms in Manhattan, in a house that belonged to the famous bookseller William Gowans. His shop on Broadway, near the tobacco-store of Anderson, became Poe's office and meeting place.
In his famous poem The Raven , Poe dealt with his obsession with death and destruction. In his “spirit of the perverse”, the death of a beautiful and beloved woman gave him “poetic chills”. And some years after the murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers, he was looking for a “Mary” on the scene of the crime…
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mathiaskain22, you can never know anything for certain unless you were there... Were you there? It's a facinating mystery. Great article!
we cannot prove now that he did murder somebody or that he did NOT murder somebody, so to say without a doubt either way, would be wrong. Just because somebody is a brilliant writter, doesnt mean they were also not a murderer, rapist, or otherwise. Good article.
Well, I Liked it....good read.
Poe was the author of some really great "hoaxes" too.
I am deeply insulted that people would make insinuations and slander Edgar, He was disturbed and had a way of incorporating himself,directly or indirectly into his tales,but he did not kill anyone!