Five year old Garnett Spears has spent most of his childhood in and out of hospitals. Doctors become suspicious when unusually high  sodium levels show up and can not be explained by natural causes. 

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In 1913 a little girl was found brutally murdered in the basement of the  pencil factory where she worked.  The trial of the century would follow an arrest. Was the right man convicted? 

Music:
"Hard Times" By Isaiah Hildreth

Male Narrator:
Curtis Hildreth

Sources:
newspapers.com

findagrave.com

Wikipedia

Prash's Murder Map : True Crime Podcast
Crimes of the Centuries Podcast

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Phagan

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/02/20/alonzo-mann-says-jim-conley-murdered-mary-phagan/4819312002/

https://pbsnc.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/61f1242e-ef0f-41ce-8465-f4f830e406b9/georgia-stories-child-labor-and-the-textile-mills/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40578524

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/textile-industry/

https://georgiahistory.com/education-outreach/online-exhibits/online-
exhibits/three-centuries-of-georgia-history/nineteenth-century/growth-and-change-in-georgia/

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/henry-w-grady-1850-1889/

And the Sea Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
Written By Steve Oney

The Silent and the Damed: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
Written By  Frey Sietz  and Nancy Thompson Frey

The Frank Case:Inside Story of Georgia's Greatest Murder Mystery
Author is anonymous

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One morning in May 1866, just before daybreak Laura Foster quietly left her home with a bundle of clothes and her father's horse. She was going to rendezvous with her beau, Tom Dooley. Rumor had it they were going to run off and get married. However, Tom did not run off and Laura never returned home. When her body was found in a shallow grave, someone was bound to hang for her murder. The question is whether the right person was hung or was someone else guilty as well?

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An Appalachian, snake handling  preacher named Glenn Summerford tried to murder his wife using a rattlesnake as his weapon. Or did he?

Music:
"Hard Times" By Isaiah Hildreth

Male Narrator :
Curtis Hildreth

Sources:
Salvation on Sand Mountain by Glenn Covington
Alabama Snake Documentary
https://youtu.be/nnnvicF9emU
https://youtu.be/7OcoUyXiuU0https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/928/snake-handling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_handling_in_Christianity
newspapers.com
findagrave.com

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In the spring of 1987,  a young woman shows up at the hospital after allegedly giving birth in her car. After a medical exam reveals that she has not given birth, authorities discover the unthinkable lengths she went to to get this baby. 

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 In the 1940's Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck preyed on lonely women    looking for love through lonely hearts advertisements. The duo started out as con artists but greed and jealousy led them to  serial killing.

Sources :
The Lonely Hearts Killers: The Bloody Passions of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez   By Tobin T. Buhk
newspapers.com
findagrave.com

Music :
"Guilty" By Al Bowlly
Public Domain Mark 1.0.

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One of Hollywood's golden girls, Lana Turner,  lived a life that could have been a movie itself.  Unfortunately the life of a movie star is not always as glamorous as it is portrayed. By the time she realized she was involved with a known gangster, it was too late. The arguments, the threats, and  the abuse eventually led to murder. 

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In Bibb county Georgia on  August 6, 1887 a prominent farmer, Captain Richard Woolfolk and eight members of his family were axed to death as they lay sleeping. The Woolfolk murders would be known as the bloodiest mass murder in Georgia history. The oldest son and only survivor of the horrendous attack was the main suspect. There's an unbelievable twist at the end that leaves everyone wondering if an innocent man was punished for the crimes. 

Episode music written and performed by Isaiah Hildreth

Narrator: Curtis Hildreth
Sermon at the end delivered by Micheal Whitt

Sources:
Shadow Chasers: The Woolfolk Tragety Revisited by Carolyn Deloach
newspapers.com
Find a Grave
Murderpedia https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/woolfolk-thomas.htm
https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/woolfolk-murder-case/
http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2010/02/bloody-woolfolk.html
https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/sharecropping/
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/the-gilded-age/south-after-civil-war/a/the-new-south

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Velma Barfield had America torn between justice and mercy. Was she a repentant murderer or an unrelenting master-manipulator? 

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Velma Barfield was a beloved mother, grandmother and Sunday school teacher. She was also a master manipulator and serial killer. 

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