 He was reported to have a net worth of $500,000 in 1846, which is equal to $12,592,230 in 2012 money.Parkman was murdered on Friday, November 23, 1849.After an extensive search by Derastus Clapp and other police officers from Francis Tukey's newly formed Boston police force, Parkman's dismembered and partly burned body was discovered on November 30 by Ephraim Littlefield, a janitor at Harvard Medical School.