Blue Ridge True Crime
Podcast Description
Appalachian true crime stories and history, examining crimes and stories from the notorious to the obscure, from frontier times to modern-day mysteries.
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Focuses on criminal history and folklore within Appalachia, with episodes detailing both famous and obscure crime stories, highlighted by discussions such as the life and legend of Otto Wood, exploring themes of myth-making and cultural impact in Appalachian balladry.
Compelling true crime stories from the Appalachian Mountains and beyond. This podcast explores crimes and stories, from the notorious to the obscure, spanning frontier times to modern-day mysteries. Crimes, history, mysteries, and more. Keeping history alive, one crime at a time. RSSVERIFY
In September 1909, six members of the Meadows family, including three young children, were murdered with an axe and a gun in their remote Virginia log cabin, which was then set on fire. Forty days later and eighty miles away, four members of the Hood family were killed in nearly identical fashion near Beckley, West Virginia. Was Howard Little, a convicted murderer with a questionable pardon, responsible for the Laurel Creek killings? Or did a drifting serial killer known as the “Man from the Train” strike twice and then disappear?
In this episode, we examine the fragmentary newspaper accounts, the role of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, the trial of Howard Little, and an eerie coincidence of gravestones.
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Robert Baker’s Laurel Creek Murders Page
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