Night Fell With An Axe
Episode 15
A dead family lays in their cabin while the agitated father sits outside. A young girl wakes to the smell of smoke and the grisly sight of her parents’ mutilated corpses. All nine members of a frontier Florida family lay hacked to pieces while their rural home burns to the ground.
What do these three true crime tales from the Gothic South have in common? There’s a shimmering thread running through each: entire families wiped out in a single night by an axe-wielding killer.
In this episode:
- The crimes and execution of Abel Clemmons who killed his entire family with an axe in their home near Clarksburg, Virginia
- The 1906 slaughter of the Lyerly Family in Rowan County, North Carolina and the brutal aftermath that stained the town forever
- The extinction of the Acreman Family in Allentown, Florida that may be the work of America’s most prolific serial killer
Listener discretion advised for graphic true crime content.
Music courtesy of Geoff Harvey, Pixabay.
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Haunts & Hollows: True Tales Of The Gothic South
Haunts & Hollows: True Tales Of The Gothic South is where true crime meets Southern folklore. Every other week, mystery author Liam Ashe digs past the haunted plantations, urban legends, and moss-draped cemeteries to uncover the real, often much darker history behind them. Lower the lights, lock the doors, and settle in. Tonight, the truth may just be stranger than the legend.
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