Three days later Chester Gillette was arrested for murder at the nearby Arrowhead Hotel in Inlet. Grace's body was later found submerged with lacerations to the face and head. Rather than finding the couple stranded by wind as they had hoped, they found the boat overturned in the Southern Bay of Big Moose Lake. The couple never returned, so the following day a search party went out. Reports say that Chester boarded the boat in a suit and brought along with him a suitcase, camera and tennis racket. On July 11, 1906, Chester Gillette rented a row boat for an afternoon out on Big Moose Lake. The people of Big Moose Lake were the last to have seen Grace Brown alive. After spending a night in Tupper Lake, they boarded another train to Big Moose Lake located about 9 miles northwest of Inlet, NY. In July of 1906, Chester Gillette and Grace Brown took a train to Tupper Lake, New York. Grace believed they were going to the Adirondacks to get married, but Chester had other plans. She continuously wrote Chester love letters and he responded by inviting her on an Adirondack vacation. ![]() When Chester was unwilling to marry her, Grace moved home with her parents. Chester and Grace became romantically involved and ultimately Grace became pregnant. It was there that he met a seamstress named Grace Brown. In 1905, Chester Gillette moved to Cortland, NY to take a job at his uncle's skirt factory (The Gillette Skirt Factory). Many say that the victim's spirit has never left, but rather it wanders the shore of Big Moose Lake. ![]() ![]() In 1906 a horrific murder unfolded on a quiet Adirondack lake in the Central Adirondacks. I'm ghost hunting! The Murder of Grace Brown I didn't need a gun because the "game" that I am after on this trip was already tragically killed over a hundred years ago. However, in the spirit of October, I felt it would be appropriate to trade the rifle in for a camera and kayak and head out on a different type of hunting expedition. And now as the calendar switches from early to late fall, I am continuing on with that mission. Over the past few weeks I have devoted quite a bit of my time to learning how to hunt.
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