12. The Murder of Little Mary Phagan

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

www.hardtimesandtruecrimes.com

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