Katherine Cross (March 13, 1899 – October 10, 1917) was a young Oklahoma woman, whose headstone epitaph which read, "Murdered by human wolves," was a source of local legend.
According to the October 25, 1917, Seminole County News, however, Cross died while under the care of Dr. A.H. Yates and Fredrick O'Neal, a schoolteacher from Konawa who was acting as his assistant.
Rascoe, Justice of the Peace, exhumed her body to perform an autopsy and the findings also listed the cause of her death as a "criminal operation.
[2] The novella comes with a nonfiction account of the author's interview with Mary Franklin, a paranormal researcher who has studied Cross's life.
The episode closes on the character's headstone, which reads "Killed by human wolves", referring to the workers at the boarding school featured in the story.