Southern History, North Carolina History Episodes
Dec. 24, 2024
86. Charlie and Frankie Silver: Tragedy in Western North Carolina
Send us a text Days before Christmas in 1831, Charlie Silver went missing from his home, leaving behind a young wife and baby. In the mountains of Western North Carolina, his family searched to no avail. Unfortunately, Charl…
May 29, 2024
61. The Bitter Blood Murders Pt. 2
Send us a text On June 3, 1985, police cautiously pursued a Chevy Blazer with four passengers. A slow chase had persisted for several miles-- from Greensboro into Summerfield, North Carolina. Suddenly, the Blazer stopped a…
May 22, 2024
60. The Bitter Blood Murders Pt.1
Send us a text In the years between 1984 and 1985, three intertwined families experienced the murders of close family members. The murders spanned from Louisville, Kentucky to Winston Salem and Greensboro, NC. Susie Newsome…
April 17, 2024
56. North Carolina's Killer Baptist Preacher: Reverend George Washington Carawan
Send us a text Reverend George Washington Carawan was charged and found guilty of the murder of a school teacher named Clement H. Lassiter . After learning the jury had found him guilty and that he would be hanged for his c…
Feb. 28, 2024
49. The MacDonald Family Murders Pt. 2
Send us a text In early 1970 Capt. Jeffrey MacDonald is awakened by the screams of his wife and daughters being attacked. He claims a group of drugged-up hippies were the intruders, but authorities quickly begin to question…
Jan. 24, 2024
45. The Mysterious Death of Smith Reynolds
Send us a text Accident? Suicide? Or Murder? The question of "Z" Smith Reynolds' death is still not answered to this day more than ninety years later. The wealthy heir of the RJ Reynolds Tobacco fortune was shot on his sleep…
Dec. 6, 2023
39. The Boone Bathtub Murders
Send us a text During a snowstorm in early 1972, a Boone, NC family is shockingly murdered in their own home. At first, it appears to be a robbery gone bad, but upon further inspection, that theory does not seem to add up. I…
Sept. 27, 2023
31. Nell Cropsey: A Murder That Still Haunts North Carolina
Send us a text On the night of November 20, 1901, Nell Cropsey vanished from her family's home in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Thirty-seven days later her body was found floating in the Pasquotank River. There was only ev…
Aug. 23, 2023
27. Poor Naomi Wise
Send us a text Naomi (Omie) Wise was an orphan girl. She fell in love with a young gentleman named Johnathan Lewis. Naomi found out she was pregnant. When she told Lewis, he told her to meet him that night so they could r…
May 25, 2023
15. Brenda Holland: The Outer Banks Murder
Send us a text In the summer of 1967, on a small island off the coast of NC a young intern at the outdoor drama, The Lost Colony, vanished. Nineteen year old Brenda Holland's body was found five days later in the Albemarle S…
March 30, 2023
11. The Legend of Tom Dooley
Send us a text One morning in May 1866, just before daybreak Laura Foster quietly left her home with a bundle of clothes and her father's horse. She was going to rendezvous with her beau, Tom Dooley. Rumor had it they were g…
Dec. 22, 2022
2. The Fogleman Family Murders
Send us a text An elderly couple is murdered in their home in a small town in North Carolina. Who would've believed that a man who played Santa in the town's Christmas parade would end up being the main suspect? Support the …
Dec. 22, 2022
1. Lawson Family Christmas Day Murders
Send us a text In 1929 Charlie Lawson, a North Carolina tobacco farmer, promised his family a special Christmas surprise. No one could ever have imagined the horror he had planned. Support the show hardtimesandtruecrimes.…