The grave with no names: a century-old murder mystery in Bakersfield

Many people go past Union Cemetery without knowing it holds the grave of a woman and child whose murders were never solved. I’m Madi Vollmer, and I’m looking into a 100-year-old Bakersfield cold case — and the mystery that still lingers.

Hidden inside Union Cemetery is a grave and a headstone different from many others.

The headstone reads:”Here sleeps an unknown mother and infant son, mysteriously murdered April 18th, 1923, and sympathetically buried by residents of Kern County.”…

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