Lewis McDowell

Lewis McDowell, a 29-year-old man from Rochester, New York, died on December 2, 1969, after he was found in his garage with carbon monoxide poisoning. In later retellings of the case, the scene is described as a closed-garage death that authorities treated as a suicide at the time, the kind of ending that can look tragically straightforward when there are no obvious signs of struggle and a lethal gas can do its work quietly.

What made McDowell’s death linger in the city’s memory was ...

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