Anne Van Bliven Research Paper

A succeeding profit of 50,000 dollars would be made if Mrs. Anne Van Bliven faked the burglary of her African blue diamond necklace. This valuable necklace was stolen from Mrs. Anne Van Bliven’s fourth floor room, labeled 409, on September 29, 1954. Mrs. Anne Van Bliven claimed she had just taken a warm, foamy bubble bath when she realized her balcony door was shattered and her necklace was nowhere to be found. She immediately called the police. When police approached the scene, they concluded that other than Mrs. Anne Van Bliven herself, there were two other suspects, Emmy Porter and Honore Elizabeth Schmit. The shards of glass broken from the balcony door fell out, but not the door. The ticket was without a tear. Mrs. Van Bliven had a motive

Van Bliven stole the valuable African blue diamond necklace from room 409. The shattered glass from the balcony door proves that Mrs. Anne Van Bliven faked the robbery. As observed in the pictures of the crime scene, the broken shards from the balcony door fell towards the balcony and not the inside of the house. This shows that the door was broken from the inside of the room. Therefore, Honore Schmidt, who was accused by Mrs. Anne Van Bliven is not guilty, for she could not get in.. Mrs. Van Bliven, on the other hand, had access to the room. She intentionally broke the door, framing Schmidt. Deducing from this evidence, Mrs. Anne Van Bliven deliberately broke the balcony door to frame Schmit to cover up her fake robbery. The stub on Mrs. Anne Van Bliven’s ticket to My Fair Lady was not ripped off. According to the case notes and Mrs. Van Bliven’s Voluntary Statement, Mrs. Van Bliven claimed to have gone to see My Fair Lady. But, as seen in the My Fair Lady Theatre Ticket, the end is not ripped off. This proves that Mrs. Anne Van Bliven never went to see My Fair Lady. If she never did this, this may have been the time she hid the necklace. Not wanting to be found guilty, she covered it up with her