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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Information
- Show
- FrequencyUpdated Weekly
- PublishedJanuary 19, 2023 at 10:00 AM UTC
- Length1h 4m
- Episode6
- RatingClean