On Jan. 10, 1954, Roy Gregory confessed to Bowling Green police that he might have killed a woman in Chicago three years ago, according to a Daily News article.

Gregory was a truck driver and met a woman in a tavern in Chicago. He said they went out on Lake Michigan in a row boat, where the two of them got into an argument, and he may have “thrown her out or whether she just fell out.” The body of a woman washed ashore near South Haven, Michigan, six months after Gregory had been in Chicago.

The Chicago police refuted the claim because a suicide note was found with the body.

– “Way Back When in Warren County” is compiled by researchers at the Warren County Public Library and appears twice weekly in the Bowling Green Daily News. For more information about the library, visit warrenpl.org.