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The Woolfolk Family Massacre

Southern Gothic
Southern Gothic
Episode • Dec 3, 2018 • 23m

On August 6, 1887 one of Georgia’s darkest and most infamous murders occurred at a farmhouse in Bibb County. Nine members of Richard Woolfolk’s family were brutally slain with an axe. Suspicion immediately fell on his son Thomas and a national media circus erupted in the aftermath.

This episode of Southern Gothic contains descriptions of a violent and horrific murder, listener discretion is advised.

Additional narration by Katelyn Murray and Kenneth Strader of The Haunted Heart podcast. 

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