Gunslinging Moonshiners: Who Made It Out Alive?
Three stories of moonshiners who would rather shoot it out than surrender, including the legendary Lewis Redmond, Moonshine King of the […]
Three stories of moonshiners who would rather shoot it out than surrender, including the legendary Lewis Redmond, Moonshine King of the […]
In this episode of the Blue Ridge True Crime Podcast, host Alfred Dockery explores the tales of two infamous North
The Legendary Otto Wood: Ballads and Banditry in Appalachia In this episode of the Blue Ridge True Crime Podcast, host
It was a rainy Friday night in February 1901 in the village of Emma, NC, three miles west of Asheville.
As you know, I spend a bit of time scouring Appalachian history books in search of extraordinary crime stories and
The September 29, 1882, New York Times carried the following item on the front page: NOVEL CAPTURE OF A MOONSHINER
I’ve been working on a quiz for a while now. The struggle is where you start and where you stop,
Were the 1909 Virginia murders a robbery or the work of a madman? Late on the night of September 21,
On Tuesday, August 21, 1934, Raban County Sheriff Luther Rickman was getting a haircut at Roy Mize’s barber shop when
Two Ghost Stories Reveal Hidden Crimes. The most famous ghost story in Australia is FisherÔÇÖs Ghost; the most famous in