On October 30, 1969, the body of Chase Andrews, one of Barkley Cove’s (NC) native sons, was found at the body of a firetower out in the marshland.

And while it appears this was just a tragic accident, the local sheriff refuses to believe one of Barkley Cove’s own could have been killed by something as banal as a fall through an open grate. 

He refuses to believe this was an accident. And opens a homicide investigation.

The number one suspect? Chase Andrews’s former girlfriend, Katherine Danielle Clark, better known to the people of Barkley Cove as the “Marsh Girl.” A young woman who had been left to live alone in the marshland after being abandoned by both her parents while the people of Barkley Cove looked on and taught their children to, at best, avoid her and, at worst, laugh.

But Kya Clark wasn’t even in Barkley Cove at the time of Chase Andrew’s death. So how does she end up on trial, fighting for her own life in a death penalty murder trial?

Today episode is based on the book, Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.

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