The Dean Murder Project

Dean Murder Project Grants of $20,000 have been made to the Society by the Bean Family Foundation to support efforts to commemorate appropriately the centenary of the unsolved Dean Murder that occurred in Jaffrey on the night of August 13, 1918.

What these efforts might be has not been determined yet but could involve one or more of the following:

A video documentary
A website (accomplished. Now available at deanmurder.org)
Digitizing records, articles, books and images
A book
An exhibition
A conference
A lecture
A dramatic production

Available Resources

The following resources are currently mirrored here on the Jaffrey History web site. Many more resources can be found at deanmurder.org.

Hearing by the Grand Jury on the Death of William K. Dean transcribed, edited, and published by Margaret C. Bean

Prominent Citizen: Prime Suspect by Georgia Hodgkins

Margaret Bean’s talk on the Dean Murder at the Amos Fortune Forum in 1989

Mark Bean’s paper on the Dean Murder

A variety of material on the Dean Murder is being scanned. Some of the images may be found on SmugMug at http://rs41.smugmug.com/Jaffrey/Dean-Murder

Youtube Video

Published on April 20, 2012. "A short clip from the Jaffrey Historical Society where the story of the unsolved murder of Dr. William Dean. Items from the murder scene are displayed and discussed. Was he murdered by German spies? The town banker?"

Keynote Presentation

A .pdf version of a presentation that has been given at the Historical Society of Cheshire County, Keene Public Library and elsewhere.