History of the MOORE ESTATE Part Two: Curiosity

Grazia settles back in with the book about the Moore Estate and is surprised to see that there is a strange addendum in the next section of the book by its author Priscilla Schneider.

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When searching through the wine cellar area of the estate, I found a family bible and several notebooks belonging to Amelia Groll – a former resident of the estate. Oddly, it looked like the books – moldy and in very bad shape – we hidden down there. After carefully reading through them, I can see why they were hidden away. Some of the things written within them were stomach curling.    P. Schneider

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Grazia reads on….

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Addendum – 1930 – March

Professor Enok Jørgersen

Professor Enok Jørgersen heads up the technical work within Asaunta’s Fantasia. While little could be found on Professor Jørgersen, it was said that his expertise was in electrical engineering and spiritualism. An interesting combination to be sure. 

1946 – October

Elizabeth Short is seen entering Asaunta’s Fantasia. She stayed overnight, then flew back to Los Angeles the following day. She was later found dead in January of 1947 and is known posthumously as the Black Dahlia. 

Addendum – December 1946

My initial research showed that Asaunta’s Fantasia was kept empty from the end of 1946 through the year 1951 by the combined efforts of Chambers, Long, and Mitchel – the lawfirm representing Tabitha Oslow-Goodman, and the Sisters of Light group, however that was not the case. 

After Tabitha Oslow-Goodman and Siegbert Werner were found dead in the estate on December 27th, 1946, Asaunta’s Fantasia was indeed closed down from that date until February 1947, but a woman named Luisa Moorelli offered to purchase the estate and grounds towards the end of February. The executors of the estate refused several large offers on Asaunta’s Fantasia and The Sisters of Light refused to meet with Moorelli or her husband Ermanno. 

1947 – March

Sisters of Light leader Beatrice Cunningham falls ill and is forced to remain in bed under careful medical attention. 

1947 – March 

Justine Long of the law firm Chambers, Long, and Mitchel is decapitated in his home in what would be considered the strangest death in the history of the Clairemont River Valley. 

1947 - April 

Priscilla Geis

Sisters of Light member Priscilla Geis poisons her husband and three children. She then walks to the local police station, confesses to the crime, and proceeds to claw out her eyes before officers can stop her. She is tried and sentenced to the Conellgrad Sanitarium. She hangs herself there in June of the same year. 

1947 – May

Ermanno and Luisa Moorelli purchase Asaunta’s Fantasia. 

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Grazia stares at the book - shocked. Clearly these people were killed off to get the estate. She looks, and finds the section on the Moorellis. 

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Ermanno and Luisa Moorelli purchased Asaunta’s Fantasia in May of 1947 after months of making offers to purchase the estate from its executors. Before they were allowed to purchase the property and grounds, however, they were part of an investigation by local authorities involving several strange deaths in March and April of 1947. There was no connection found between the Moorellis and the deaths. 

Ermanno and Luisa Moorelli

Ermanno and Luisa Moorelli came to the United States in February of 1947 after the political situation there became uncomfortable for them. They moved into Asaunta’s Fantasia in June of 1947 with their recently widowed, 25 year old daughter Olivia.  Olivia Moorelli’s husband Claudio was killed in World War II just two months before the end of the war. 

Olivia Moorelli (Moore) - circa 1955

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Grazia blinks and stares out into the room. 

“Olivia Moorelli.  25 years old in 1947.” She narrows her eyes, then laughs out loud, forgetting where she is for a moment. “No…no no, this isn’t our Olivia,” she says in Italian. 

A voice whispers back in Italian. “Oh, but it is, Grazia. It is me.” Olivia stares down at her knowing the time to talk is now.