Muriel plants the roots of the Sharpe family tree in North Carolina and we get all the dirt on the beginnings of a bonafide Southern Dynasty. Springing from a soil of the American Civil War, the Sharpes had a ton of surviving children - each accomplished and impressive in their own right with the women in the family achieving history-making professional successes. Two of these woman have children who end up hooking up (first cousins) and wind up exploding in a guns, ammo and vitamin-filled Chevy Blazer - but that’s not until 1985 and Muriel has a lot of ground to cover before we get there. Before the ‘80s, as covered in Part One, the Sharpes only had one gun-related murder in the family. Besides that, the biggest scandal was one of the daughters marrying a Catholic. All that and much more awaits you, dear listener, here in Part One.

Our Five-Part series is based on the 1988 book “Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness and Multiple Murder” by Jerry Bledsoe. This case is often called The Bitter Blood Murders and is sometimes discovered by learning about Susie Sharpe Newsome and Fritz Klenner.

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